Spatial Planning of Mărului Valley Basin Depending on Relief Particularities. Mărului Valley is a left tributary of Someșul Mic River that crosses the Cluj Hills along about 17 km, creating a drainage basin of 75 km². The Mărului stream flows NW-SE and confluences with the collector river in Iclod village. It is an asymmetrical valley of cuesta type (Savu, 1963), carved in Miocene deposits (Ciupagea et al., 1970). The morphology of the hillside-valley system bears the imprint of Pleistocene periglacial modelling, on which the post-glacial Holocene shaping is creeping over. The physiognomy of the five settlements in the study area attests the adjustment of their functions to the relief specificity. Being peripherally located towards the convergence axis Cluj-Dej, the study area presents a raised obscurity from the development point of view (PATR, 2004). With the purpose to remove the relative isolation to which the mentioned localities belong, this research aims at creating a model of territorial planning focused on the relief particularities, being able at the same time to answer some of the most important residents’ current necessities, such as access to communication networks and quality services (social, medical, economic, leisure), coupled with high well-being standards.

Keywords: spatial planning, landslides, soil erosion, geomorphological risk, agriculture.