The paper is focusing on the development of five Wallachian towns, aiming towards understanding and explaining how their urban form morphed from pre‑modernity to modernity during the 19th century. It discusses the actual structure of the settlements, its main areas and elements and the relations established between them. This paper represents a first step in a broader
research interest aiming towards identifying recurrent patterns or principles of development in Romanian towns, both in pre‑modern and modern era. The plans I publish in the paper are graphical representations that depict in a conclusive way the information I include in the text. They are the result of the interpretation of the cartographic sources, that comes from the graphical georeferenced superimpositions of all available analyzed documents, doubled by the redrawing of the plans, with adjustments, where needed.