Declining Urban Structures - the Galati County Case

Constraint by physical and territorial-administrative limitations, Galati county displays an internally manifested functional enclavization, present at the level of settlements that is the first stage for declining territorial structures. The functional enclaves have a double nature within the cities, their relative isolation correlating with a certain process of social-cultural segregation, as well as an unbalanced economic cover. At the outside, the surpassing of the natural and administrative limitations takes two forms, that of territorial community under the shape of pseudo-suburbs and declining structures or, the second one, the form of complete “de-location”, beyond the administrative boundaries, at different distances, according to the main factor that generated the process.