Abstract
<p class="yiv776123426msonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is situated in the Romanian Plain and is being drained by Dambovita and Colentina Rivers. During the last 150 years, the natural landscape has been intensely modified by its inhabitants. The most prominent change has been made in the Dambovita floodplain, where the natural land features have been completely changed. The present paper aims to highlight the major geomorphological changes that Bucharest suffered over the last 150 years. The major human intervention was the improvement of Dambovita channel and the demolition and/or the construction of different buildings during the communist period. Besides the human induced geomorphological changes, there is also soil creeping as a natural geomorphological phenomenon that shapes the landscapes of Bucharest. </span></p>
Highlights
Bucharest is the biggest city from Romania and is located in the central part of the Romanian Plain
The present paper tries to track the geomorphological changes that occurred in Bucharest City in the last 150 years by diachronic analysis of historical maps and by analyzing the historical topography (1911) compared with the present one in a GIS environment
In order to improve the landscape of the lake, the area right next to Dambovita’s versant was enlarged by adding a huge amount of material [2]. Another change that has been made in the communist period is the construction of numerous blocks of flats in different areas of the city that eventually led to elevations due to ground preparations before building a construction
Summary
Bucharest is the biggest city from Romania and is located in the central part of the Romanian Plain. During its existence of about 555 years, the city’s landscape has been shaped by the two main rivers that cross the city – Dambovita, in the central part, and Colentina, in the north-eastern part, but the most significant role in shaping the landscape belongs to the humans. At the end of the 19th century, the city spread around the Royal Court (Figure 1). The city spread wider and wider, including the surrounding villages (Baneasa, Floreasca, Plumbuita, Colentina, Sarbi, Giulesti, Dudesti etc.). The present paper tries to track the geomorphological changes that occurred in Bucharest City in the last 150 years by diachronic analysis of historical maps and by analyzing the historical topography (1911) compared with the present one in a GIS environment
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