Abstract
The article proposes a revaluation of a type of public space constituted in communist Romania. New county capitals’ central squares, constituted between 1965 and 1989, are rightfully considered as a fertile source for architectural icons of the period, as well as embodiments of totalitarian power. Yet, the present research, based on case studies, brings evidence that they not only constituted quite diverse answers to a homogenizing ambition, but also that political tension around these civic centers ended up providing often disarticulated results. Such results testify today more convincingly about the weaknesses of the communist system than about its aims to provide unity samples of leadership for people.
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