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The paper introduces the concept of performativity as originally described by Judith Butler end explained by Neil Leach. The concept will be extended to the public space as a key factor in perceiving the city as it is described by mental maps. Overlapping the map of Bucharest's industrial heritage onto the mental map describing the safety perception in the city it will become evident that rehabilitating the industrial heritage has implication beyond saving a unique piece of history. In doing so the mental map of the city can be changed in some simple steps and the whole city can take advantage of this. The project of rehabilitation of former "Cartea Românească" printing House is small example in this respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with specific features pertaining to the verbal categories of person, mood (partially voice), tense and aspect in illocutionary verbs arising from the occurrence of mentioned verbs in performatively used utterances (in the basic form of the 1st person singular indicative, present tense imperfective). The notion of performativity is explained as a pragmatic value of an utterance, based on the accomplishment of a deed (act) denoted by the lexical meaning of a verbum dicendi while the core of the speech act performance consists of the coincidence of locution and illocution (in an Austinian sense). The essential prerequisite making the utterance suitable for performative use is deemed to lie in its temporal qualities, shown through Reichenbach's tense deconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]