Dioști village: a Sociological model to follow

The model village represents an innovative idea and project of the Bucharest School of Sociology, which was brought to life in the interwar timeframe as part of the continuous efforts to improve the quality of life in the rural areas of Great Romania. Thus, thousands of work hours were synthesized and applied at Dioști village, a small village that was rapidly transforming into a living model-to-follow. The transformation was a holistic one: the architectural specificity was saved and promoted, the cultural and moral values were promoted, the administrative, economic, and social life was upgrading. The entire process was supervised by Gheorghe Focșa, one of Dimitrie Gusti`s assistants that also managed to create a brief presentation of what had been done in Dioști in only two years of intensive work.