This year our MSc City Design and Social Science students visited Bucharest from 23-28 March 2013, accompanied by faculty members Dr Suzi Hall and Dr David Madden and guided by Gruia Badescu, a graduate of the MSc City Design (2009) who worked for two years for the Integrated Urban Development Plan for the Centre of Bucharest and is now pursuing a PhD at the Urban Conflicts Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, looking at the connection between urban reconstruction and coming to terms with the past. For the programme put together by Gruia see Bucharest Schedule| (PDF).

See images above and below of Bucharest by our MSc students Carina Arvizu Machado (CAM), Jacob Bielecki (JB), Julian Castro (JC), Melissa Meyer (MM), David Montero Jalil (DMJ), Alejandro Sajgalik (AS), Justinien Tribillon (JT) and Nicola Walt (NW).

En route

Melissa's impressionistic images from the coach window give a flavour of the journey from the airport into Bucharest:

Roadside sirens MM

Roadside sirens (MM)

Modern idols MM

Modern idols (MM)

Roadside hoardings MM

Roadside hoardings (MM)

Get lucky (MM)

Glimpse of a building (MM)

People

Assembled CAM

Justinien Tribillon (left) and fellow students with Gruia Badescu (woolly hat, fourth from right) in the cold (CAM)

Crossing AS

Our intrepid travellers brave the traffic together (AS)

Metro NW

Our man in Bucharest: David Madden (hat and glasses) with Gruia Badescu and the gang (NW)

Gate JB

Minh Toan leads the way (JB)

Anna & Melissa NW

Dressed for the weather: Anna Bray Sharpin and Melissa Meyer (NW)

Walking DMJ

Walking in the park (DMJ)

Another season JT

Another season: From left Tsuguta Yamashita, Alejandro Sajgalik and Gruia Badescu relax on return to Bucharest for a conference in May with Justinien Tribillon(JT)