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The Starting Structure of the Post-Communist City’s Socio-Spatial Dynamics. Observations on Two County Seats: Târgu Jiu and Râmnicu Vâlcea. The reasons for the interest shown in the attempt to understand the initial structures which were the starting point in the transition period – namely the structural framework created by the communist system – stems from the theoretical, mostly realistic commitment of the analysis of the urban socio-spatial structuring during the period following 1989, of the two county seats found in the sub-carpathic sector bordered by the rivers Jiu and Olt. The spontaneous, natural structuring of the urban space after 1989, especially when seen from a social perspective, can be grasped when we first understand the social limitations which characterized the previous period, and the superposition of an adjustment effect caused by a series of non-manifest effects which had been accumulating over the free development stimulation, in the post-communist context. The limitations enforced on the dwelling expression of the social status as well as on the aspirations for personal comfort were dictated by the residence’s legislative spatial, location, and surface limitations, those of the style and architecture and of the comfort it could illustrate; there was also a symbolic limitation determined by the ideological threshold of the age of equalitarianism and proletarianism, which circumscribed the expression of personal needs, architectonic aspirations, or needs regarding quality and comfort. The study’s conclusions reveal the fact that in the context of such a legislative framework, the social differentiation and the social structuring could have taken place openly in any other parameters but those of the possession of goods, dwelling comfort, income and real estate properties. In an era of electricity consumption limitation, of that of the number of illumination sources, food and fuel rations, the expression of welfare and social status could be materialized in any other form except the residence’s size, the dwelling comfort, and the prosperity of daily life. Evaluating the building stock, once the communist endeavour of erasing the social differences was over and the communist equalitarianism has triumphed even in the sphere of the housing space, the latter could no longer (re)present a “social mark”.

Keywords: transition, urban systematization, Târgu Jiu, Râmnicu Vâlcea, dwelling surface, residential area.