Once defined by heavy industry, Resita is undergoing a profound transformation—guided by vision, community values, and strategic investment—into a modern, people-centred city rooted in heritage and sustainability, as Mayor Ioan Popa explains in this interview. Why was it necessary for Reșița to go through a city branding process at this moment in its history? For more than two centuries, industry made Reșița the city of firsts: the first steel center in Romania (1771), the first steam engine in