English: Aerial view of Bucharest in 1927. The Dâmboviţa River is in the foreground, cutting the picture into roughly horizontal halves. The upper half of the image largely shows the central part of the city, with many buildings still standing today. The lower half depicts part of the Izvor-Uranus district, which was almost fully demolished in the mid-1980s in order to make room for the Centrul Civic complex. Centrul Civic, which comprises Casa Poporului, the Victoria Socialismului boulevard, and the blocks of flats bordering it, was the effort of the then-president Nicolae Ceauşescu to build an administrative centre comparable to that in Pyongyang, capital city of D.P.R. Korea.