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The quality of urban public space presumes, among other aspects, a balance between quantity, distribution and placement of the outdoor advertising. In Romania, despite existice of legislation regarding the placement of outdoor advertising, there is no correlation with any urban planning legislation, so far. The lack of legislative and operational correlation had as effect for the past two decades an excessive and uncontrolled invasion of outdoor advertising, especially in central urban areas. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the study focuses on a protected built area, with historical monuments, in which the normative elements are explained through their territorial effects, meaning the impact on the quality of public spaces, of the conservation of heritage, the enhancement of urban landscape, the road safety etc.

The demographic ageing and the decrease of demographic stability are processes determining important challenges for the economies of developed countries. The description and the analysis of spatial - temporal patterns of demographic structures specific for areas of low urban polarizing becomes a priority for durable, balanced, coherent and integrated development of various categories of disfavoured territories. This article tries to describe spatial and temporal patterns of demographic structures, using an analysis of ESDA type (Exploratory Space Data Analysis) for Romania between the last two people census. Using visualizing methods in GIS and using LISA technique, we detected spatial patterns of demographic structures and we emphasized the existence of some clusters and some trends of spatial polarization. The demographic ageing and implicitly the decrease of the rate of young people in territorial demographic structures, represents the main phenomenon being the basis of social and economic disparities, their increase in low polarized areas of urban systems, emphasizing the relations between social and demographic dynamics and regional economic changes.

The current urban morphology and the identity building of the city construction can be designed as a palimpsest; the spatial development stages of urban systems represent the result of their evolution over time. The characteristics of urban palimpsest depend mainly on the emergent factors that influenced the territorial dynamics and the configuration of urban bodies. Urban life and its quality are directly influenced by spatial and temporal factors of the city evolution. For this reason the study aims to achieve a research to explain the concept of urban palimpsest and the current morphology of urban tissue because they are products of landscape transformations along the history. The current knowledge on urban palimpsest characteristics is very important and useful to plan the current and future evolution of urban systems. The case study presents a vast view on the history of spatial development and urban system as well as a dynamics of the landscape interconditioned by the elements of such development in the context of reference historical eras.

Urban gentrification is the transformation process of an urban area by social class with high incomes. In territorial profile, can be identified several forms of urban gentrification. After 1989, various industrial restructured areas or residential buildings left unfinished following the withdrawal of financial support from the state housing construction sector went through the process of gentrification. Through its characteristics and specific features, the urban gentrification is a viable solution to improve the quality of urban living.

Housing Quality Index (HQI) is an analysis tool of urban housing and its assessment of the quality. Development of this indicator based on positive or negative impact that present the main statistical indicators of housing variables completes a series of international research in this direction and define the urban areas according to specific quality issues. Statistical analysis, correlated with social research methods and territorial identification of the main failures of housing contributes to the urban zoning areas and establishes the new research directions in the building of index that gives the expected results of all involved in the implementation of appropriate measures to improve the quality of housing conditions.

This study contains a post-adhering to European Union diagnosis of housing conditions. Statistics provided by the European Union Statistics Network, Eurostat, highlight the precariousness of housing quality, the main element of the quality of life. Statistical analysis of main housing quality indicators in the post-adhering period when our country gained the status of EU member indicate major differences between highly developed states and new Member States of this European structure, with particular problems in terms of standards development and thus quality of life.

Thermal rehabilitation of collective housing blocks represent a national priority. The cause is the low level of thermal insulation which results in higher energy consumption. The vast majority of collective housing are built before 1990 they do not comply with thermal and sound insulation, due to the structural degradation over time. Implementation of the rehabilitation program must meet quality standards required by current legislation. Failure to achieve this involves a series of structural problems that arise in the medium and long term.