Talk:Urban planning in communist countries

message: This article is full of biased remaked and comments - needs to be fixed,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.32.142.134 (talk) 13:10, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Just wanted to thank Mihnea Tudoreanu for NPOV'ing an article I wrote on a topic where it was hard for me to be neutral. Sometimes I need editing. -- Jmabel 17:23, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Objective

message: Are these called something like Matchboxes (Cutie de chibrituri) in slang? - FrancisTyers 08:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. :-) bogdan 09:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Slang

message: I strenuously object to the move with no prior consultation (and not even the decency to inform me as the primary author of the article) of the Romania-specific Systematization article (Systematization (Romania)) to this more general title and the mixing in of material related to other countries. The move was then followed by prod'ing the old title (which I have reverted) on the dubious basis that a word with over 600,000 Google hits "does not exist". 
As the 600,000 G-hits attest, "systematization" is a perfectly good English word. As for whether it is used with reference to Ceauşescu's urban planning schemes, here are some immediately available online references: 
* http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ro0053): this one if from the Library of Congress Country study, which ought to be pretty definitive on correct English-language usage for a political term
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4173: from New York Review of Books, probably the leading periodical of literary criticism in the United States
* http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-42881/Romania: from the Encyclopædia Britannica. Requires subscription, but the relevant phrase is 'Ceausescu's “village systematization” campaign', you can Google that and confirm this exists
* http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/humis/humis18.htm: in the work of the prominent Hungairan historian Bela K. Kiraly (now on the faculty of City University of New York
* http://www.cttours.ro/why_travel.htm, http://www.romaniatourism.com/saxon.html: two prominent travel sites
User:Afil, you have stated that the word "doesn't exist" and that I "don't know how to translate into English." Unless you wish to extend your criticism to, among others, the Library of Congress, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the New York Review of Books, you would do well to withdraw it. And I suggest that the next time you accuse another contributor of incompetence, you might make some effort first to deterimine whether they might, in fact, be correct. - Jmabel | Talk 20:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To be blunt, I think it was Afil's move that showed incompetence (and arrogance). I also think that his new principles for what the article ought to be about, his poorly-phrased and hopelessly POV additions to the text, and his failure to provide sources all confirm the suspicion. Dahn 21:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Jmabel, I feel you should call the article like the Encyclopedia Britannica: Village systematization in Communist Romania. Dpotop 12:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I'd have no problem if the topic were that narrow, but the focus also included the cities. Bucharest is not a village. I would have no problem with Systematization in Communist Romania; the previous title was Systematization (Romania). - Jmabel | Talk 20:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is strange how this morphed into something broader before it seems that a broadening was taking place in the original article.  It would be wonderful to have a page on urban planning in communist countries, as the ways in which urban planning was undertaken in such diverse cities as Moscow, Leningrad, East Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Pyongyang, Havana, Tirana, Tblisi and Beijing.  A fascinating article could arise on the theories and results, as well as the economic, architectural, environmental, cultural and industrial impact they had -- then the huge undoing necessary by post-communist urban planners undertaken differently or similarly in many of them -- and the comparisons to similar-scaled modern urban planning done in places like New York (esp under Robert Moses), Tokyo (post war), London, etc., and contrasts to the impact of miserable lack of urban planning in cities under arguably leftist or statist regimes during their biggest growth periods, like Bombay, Delhi, Sao Paulo and Mexico City.  See where an article with the current title needs to go?  That ain't this article, folks.  I support switching it back to the more narrow title referring to Systemization in Communist Romania or similar.  And the switcher should start a new one and stub info from this one into it, and keep the Moscow stuff and move outward from there. NYDCSP 18:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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