New Belgrade: From a Socialist Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture
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New Belgrade, home to about 250,000 inhabitants, is part of Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia. Despite this area’s slightly older history, New Belgrade’s large-scale development began after the end of the Second World War. This chapter critically examines one century of New Belgrade (1919-2020), focusing on its transformation since 1985 in response to profound changes in political and social environments. During the decades of construction, New Belgrade crossed the path from a socialist functional neighbourhood to a neoliberal space embodied in chaotic urbanism and expensive architecture. This chapter moves diachronically and synchronously through four periods, using a theoretical framework – the relationship of the social system, political leaders, city planning, management, and construction – to explain the development of New Belgrade.
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New Belgrade / modernism / socialist urbanism / postmodernism / neoliberal city / Serbia / YugoslaviaSource:
Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism, 2023, 160-178Publisher:
- Routledge
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003260769-9
ISBN: 978-1-032-19768-5 (hbk)
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85142592257
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Географски институт „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ / Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić SASATY - CHAP AU - Vuksanović-Macura, Zlata PY - 2023 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/14586 AB - New Belgrade, home to about 250,000 inhabitants, is part of Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia. Despite this area’s slightly older history, New Belgrade’s large-scale development began after the end of the Second World War. This chapter critically examines one century of New Belgrade (1919-2020), focusing on its transformation since 1985 in response to profound changes in political and social environments. During the decades of construction, New Belgrade crossed the path from a socialist functional neighbourhood to a neoliberal space embodied in chaotic urbanism and expensive architecture. This chapter moves diachronically and synchronously through four periods, using a theoretical framework – the relationship of the social system, political leaders, city planning, management, and construction – to explain the development of New Belgrade. PB - Routledge T2 - Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism T1 - New Belgrade: From a Socialist Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture SP - 160 EP - 178 DO - 10.4324/9781003260769-9 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14586 ER -
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Vuksanović-Macura, Z.. (2023). New Belgrade: From a Socialist Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture. in Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism Routledge., 160-178. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260769-9 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14586
Vuksanović-Macura Z. New Belgrade: From a Socialist Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture. in Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism. 2023;:160-178. doi:10.4324/9781003260769-9 https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14586 .
Vuksanović-Macura, Zlata, "New Belgrade: From a Socialist Ideal to a Fragmented Space of Fashionable Architecture" in Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism (2023):160-178, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260769-9 ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14586 .