The study explores the social, economic and ecological realities of Bucharest, the Romanian capital city. Today, Bucharest is engaged in a transition from its recent communist past to a market economy. Emerging from a decade of economic downturn that followed the fall of the communist regime, Bucharest faces the double challenge of modernizing its urban environment and pre-serving and enhancing its culture heritage, and expanding its economy.

The study looks at the landscape of power in relative to oil. In doing so it speaks to the planning that has occurred beyond the national level, with Bektel and its italian counterpart, Itostrada. For Bucharest, the new airport location is an old issue, but it is of enormous importance and keenly relevant today. These forces are played out in the development of the new highway to Constanza. The inherent order of the highway and the logic of development relative to its access, malls superstores etc, are capitalized upon in this project by placing the access ramps within the boundaries of the