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Authors: SORIN GOG.
DOI: 10.2478/subbs-2022-0010
pp. 81-87
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A suitable model for the Romanian lifestyle: the family with a house and garden’ (2018) by Andrei Răzvan Voinea is a remarkable study that documents the activity of the Municipal Company for Low-cost Housing over four decades and focuses on the attempts of local authorities to solve the housing crisis that emerged in Bucharest at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time the city underwent a growing industrialization process and generated a vast influx of population from the rural hinterlands that were integrated into the industrial economy of the city. We know for example from a study called Pulmonary tuberculosis among the working class in our country, written in 1907 by Ecaterina Arbore, an important socialist activist and healthcare specialist, that the living conditions of the people employed in the capitalist industries were extremely poor and that the workers were exposed to dangerous hazards both inside and outside the factories.
Housing for workers and civil servants. The Construction Company and the Vatra Luminoasă lotissement (2021) is the second book published by Studio Zona and is authored by Andrei Razvan Voinea and Irina Calota. The book focuses on another social housing project, called Vatra Luminoasă, implemented during the interwar period in Bucharest by a state company (Casa Construcțiilor) which was established in 1930. This study is important because it focuses on a housing project that emerged as a result of the pressure exerted by the growing number of workers and socialist activists who lived in very poor conditions in the capital of Romania. Similar to the previous housing company analysed by Andrei Răzvan Voinea, this one was as well designed to generate affordable houses, but it failed to do so. In this case, it is interesting to follow the various ideological narratives that drove the implementation of this project, from a right-wing eugenic emphasis on enabling a clean and sanitary environment for building a nation to a left-wing emphasis on the social rights of the working-class.
