11 September 2000 BUCHAREST-Built during the communist era, the largest district in Bucharest, Drumul Taberei, is jam-packed with blocks of flats, squeezing people into 15 to 50 square-meter concrete boxes. Over the years, small shops and kiosks have mushroomed where grass and trees used to be. But on 16 August the neighborhood was shaken up as workers tore down the […]

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