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This study is based on the general analysis of functional restructured areas, whose evolution is achieved through interdependence relations at the economic level that support their development and assertion. The main major types are: a) traditional residential areas restructured for residential and services, whose relative stability is given by the slow process of changing at the structural level under the influence of different socio-economical processes; b) industrial areas restructured for residential and residential-services, whose interpretation is related to the multiple dimensions that the industrial restructuring process has in principal (economic, social and environmental); c) old industrial areas restructured in industrial parks, the new areas being often combined to a viable industrial environment, undistorted, based on competition and on a stable legal framework, simple and coherent, in order to ensure a sustainable economical growth; d) residential and services areas restructured for transport, the concerns in the transport restructuring representing a step absolutely necessary in the whole process of urban restructuring.