Green Infrastructure 2014 Group G - Case Study 4

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Cetatuia Hill

Name	Cetatuia Hill
Country	Romania
City	Cluj-Napoca
Authors	Papiu-Zoran Catalina

Rationale: Why is this case interesting?

Cetatuia hill is located nearby the city center of Cluj-Napoca and it is the place where the most beautiful panorama of the city can be enjoyed in a natural settlement. When the Austrian troops left, the hill was given back to the city and became the promenade place of the citizens as well as a touristic objective for foreigners.

Even though it has a lot of history as background, a privileged location (near Somes which is the main river of the city) and is listed as one of the major attraction of the city, in the last years it has been left in a cone of shade. Existing constructions turned into abandoned places almost in ruin, more than 50% of the hill side is not even practicable (landslides, lack of alleys) and citizens have lost their interest in enjoying this piece of nature.

In the context of urban revitalization a long term GI planning for Cetatuia hill would determine the reintegration of this site into the city's scale of values and would set and example how the functional and aesthetical principles applied in the process of rehabilitating an unexploited existing site can contribute to the city's revitalization.

Author's perspective

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Landscape and/or urban context of your case

What was once a place for growing wines was transform starting with 1716 into a fortress (cetatuia is the Romanian name for fortress) with strategic and military purposes. The height of the hill allowed the army to oversee the whole city and its surroundings. The beautiful view and its appealing to tourists lead to the construction in 1969 of one of the biggest and modern hotel of that time.

Nowadays Cluj-Napoca is a crowded city with a lot of grey buildings and bad traffic struggling with the lack of green spaces (only 20 m2/inh well bellow the average of 50 m2 indicated by the EU). You can feel this mostly during the warm and sunny days when people get crowded in the central city park (which is in reality a public garden having only 1 ha).

In Cluj-Napoca green spaces are not interconnected and many of public gardens inside the neighborhoods are not even inviting therefore people are not attracted anymore by the nature in their city.

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Green Infrastructure benefits for this site

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Potential for multifunctionality

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