{"id":25778,"date":"2021-02-04T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p095yylk"},"modified":"2021-02-04T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T04:07:00","slug":"europes-most-dangerous-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/europes-most-dangerous-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Most Dangerous Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"Bucharest, in Romania, is arguably Europe\u2019s most dangerous capital city. It\u2019s not the crime that\u2019s the problem \u2013 it\u2019s the buildings. Many of them don\u2019t comply with basic laws and building regulations. Permits are regularly faked. And yet Bucharest is the most earthquake prone European capital. A serious quake would cause many of the buildings to collapse, with a potential loss of life into the thousands. Some years ago a red dot was put on a number of buildings in the city which were in danger of collapse. Nothing else has happened since. A microcosm of the problem is a type of building called \u2018camine de nefamilisti\u2019 or, \u2018homes for those without families\u2019. These were built during the Ceaucescu era to temporarily house workers brought in from the countryside and people who were still single after university. The single room flats, the size of a prison cell, with a communal shower and toilet on each floor were never meant for families. But after the fall of Communism many of these \u2018matchboxes\u2019 ended up in private hands and conditions deteriorated with whole families moved into spaces designed for a single person. Simona Rata grew up in one of these buildings. For Assignment, she returns to the \u2018camine de nefamilisti\u2019 and finds little has changed since her childhood.\n\nReporter, Simona Rata. \nProducer, John Murphy. \nEditor, Bridget Harney \n(Image: Abandoned building on Calea Mosilor, a busy street in the centre of Bucharest. Credit: Simona Rata\/BBC)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p095yylk\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest, in Romania, is arguably Europe\u2019s most dangerous capital city. It\u2019s not the crime that\u2019s the problem \u2013 it\u2019s the buildings. Many of them don\u2019t comply with basic laws and building regulations. Permits are regularly faked. And yet Bucharest is t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598421,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions\/1598421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}