On the wrong side of the track: railways as urban boundaries in the towns of the First Transylvanian Railway
2010; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0963926810000076
ISSN1469-8706
Autores Tópico(s)Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
ResumoABSTRACT: This article addresses the morphological and functional implications of the railway as an urban boundary, by studying seven towns in Romania, connected by the First Transylvanian Railway (1868–70). The research highlights similarities and differences as to the initial railway insertion, the subsequent growth patterns and the differentiation appearing between areas adjoining the railway tracks. The article argues that although a ‘wrong side of the track’ did not emerge everywhere, the segregation and lack of urban amenities affecting the areas which could be thus labelled is rooted in the failure to render the railway barrier permeable and to generate complementarity rather than subordination between the two sides of the track.
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