1998/01/01 by Judit Bodnár · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Urbanization and City Planning
paper · doi:10.2307/2500709
openalex publication_date 1998/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
In early December 1994 in the Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs, a new category appeared in the Page of Records–a sophisticated guide to the “best” places and services in Budapest: “The Most Unsighdy Square in Europe.” This award went to Budapest's Moszhva tér (Moscow Square). No other contender for this title has yet been found. On the last pages of his monograph on the current architectural transformation of Budapest, art and media critic Péter György reveals in parentheses how the book was inspired by the sight of this area: “I have been crossing the square every day for ten years, and in the last couple of years I would stop ever more frequendy–unable to move on–and fixedly stare at the decay.”