In Search of the Urbanity Surrounding Relocated Churches Part 2 Dissertation 2025 Luca Misosniky Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania This research focuses on Bucharest, exploring the estranged urban condition created by the residual spaces left behind socialist façade interventions. These terrains occupy a position between the rigid order of the socialist city and the porous historical fabric structured around parochial units. Devoid of fixed identity, they are shaped by spatial contradictions and layered, conflicting meanings. Their exclusion from the formal city structure offers the potential for an alternative urbanity — participatory, flexible and rooted in everyday life. Architecture is reframed as a support for civic and communal processes rather than a predefined formal solution.These voids act as informal archives, where fragments of history persist as active elements. Churches, although no longer spatial anchors, retain symbolic significance and can help regenerate these spaces by focusing community needs and resources.Case studies highlight key strategies: open- ended frameworks, community involvement, everyday use and the preservation of imperfections and historical layers. In Bucharest, activating these residual terrains can reconnect fragmented identities with contemporary urban life. The aim is not a reconciled unity, but a productive coexistence of opposing forces - a tension resolved not by design, but through the slow rituals of daily life. Tutor(s) Radu Tudor Ponta