Damaris Cata is a 19-year-old university student who lives in the suburban development of Flore?ti, in northwestern Romania.
She says the area could be perfect if the developers had only planned it just a little bit better.
¡°We don¡¯t have medical service around here and the roads are not as they should be,¡± Cata says.
As countries progress, spatial planning- the used to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales-becomes more and more important.
This is especially true for Romania, which has basically learned to do such planning from scratch, following the collapse of the country¡¯s centralized planning system back in 1989.
While it is clear to urban planners why spatial planning is so important, it is not always easy to convince others of this, says a World Bank Enhanced Spatial Planning report.