Insular Cities – Bucharest Case Study

Although cities are the main propellers of the world’s economies, it is becoming more and more obvious that their pattern of evolution is changing.

Such is the case of Bucharest, a relatively large city for Eastern Europe. With its almost 2 million inhabitants, it is one of the most economically developed places in the region. It alone produced more than 16 percent of Romania’s GDP in 2006, thus having a better GDP/capita (PPS) than other Western regions of the EU, such as Campania in Italy – the region around Naples -.