New book lays bare Bratislava’s (un)planned urban development
Architectural historians discover city’s unique phenomenon of ‘unintentional continuity’.
The Inner Ring Road/The Ambiguous Ring (Source: Olja Triaška Stefanović)
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(Source: Slovart)
Anyone who has stood on a hill outside Bratislava and looked down across the capital will have seen a city with a small old town centre dominated by a castle, modern high-rise tower blocks close by that same centre, and the rest of the city spreading out with housing estates dotted randomly in various districts, and a massive oil refinery in one of its suburbs.