Walk on Mogoșoaiei Bridge. Proposal for cultural route

Abstract

Calea Victoriei is not the longest street of Bucharest, neither the largest one. Certainly, is not the most circulated or the oldest street. However, you can’t think at Bucharest, without evoking, in your mind’s eye, a walk on Calea Victoriei, “the most famous artery from the Middle East”, like Paul Morand named it1. What makes it to special, so attractive? How did Calea Victoriei enter the collective imagination, getting the present statute? What can we, the architects do, in order to maintain and increase its prestige?