Rezumat/Abstract. Worldwide, the economic crisis already installed involves multiple changes and various ways to support them. This paper highlights on the specific symptoms of „urban diseases" related with what happend in Romanian cities in the last decades of actual economic crisis and shows how to deal with the disease status in urban areas. Starting from here, this paper extends the research and questions the need for change in urban planning as profession which became more and more forced to "treat" especially "sick places" and spot symptoms, forgetting the necessary humanistic approach of the city in its entirety.

Cuvinte cheie/Key words: urban desease, alternative, humanistic

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