http://www.bibliotecapemobil.ro/content/scoala/pdf/Book%20of%20Abstracts%20LUMEN%202013%20-%20Editura%20Lumen.pdf p.149 Abstract ‘High-surfaces’ is a concept developed within the doctoral thesis of the author, in the context of built constructed areas of the city, developed either vertically or horizontally, or both. The tendency of developing and increasing active surfaces of the city are related to the population rapid growth in the big cities,

New city is the new metropolis, built from scratch in the shape of a globalised and globalizing city which devours its surrounding tissue into a spatial pattern of ever-growing heights. This new city is the new three-dimensional space matrix, a space where horizontal expansion results into a spatial density exponential increase. New city is the denomination of architectural and urban phenomena, former city of the future, denoting a massive investment

http://www.google.ro/books?id=a5mFvlq8wi4C&pg=PA371&dq=marina+mihaila+architecture&lr=&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false The issue of urban insertions is still a very present-day debate, and a sensitive topic when discussing urban tissues of architectural, environmental or historical value. The entire professional community, heritage commissions, and civil societies (in areas where this experience of urban life already exists) are trying