Re-Thinking City Space in the Context of Nineteenth Century Belgrade
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The split into “nature” and “culture” has lasted for centuries in Western civilization and remains the framework through which we consider various important problems of contemporary society. In the last decades of the twentieth century there has been a clear reaction to this dichotomy, first in a geography discourse then elsewhere, and a move towards studying the construction and representation of nature in cultural history. A very important feature in the approach to design for recovering contemporary urban landscape is urban greenery regeneration as well as the study of the urban greenery past. The broader historical context of our study is the establishment of new capitalist relations towards urban territory in nineteenth century Belgrade, and with it a new distribution of political and economic power. This process led to the disappearance of the main green spaces in the city and the suppression of the memory they carried. The reconstruction of Belgrade’s historic core was implement...ed according to Emilijan Josimović’s urban plan (1867). Nevertheless, it contained some very important indications of ecological thinking. In order to elaborate a refined approach to environmental and cultural problems that Belgrade, like other cities, faces today, we bring to light and critically examine those features and aspects of Josimović’s plan that established organic relations and balance between nature, culture, city memory and city development.
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Plan of Belgrade / Urban nature / Critical spatial practice / Public spaceSource:
CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities’ Transformation, 2020Publisher:
- Department of Architecture – University of Bologna
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- Studying climate change and its influence on environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (RS-MESTD-Integrated and Interdisciplinary Research (IIR or III)-43007)
- Geography of Serbia (RS-MESTD-Integrated and Interdisciplinary Research (IIR or III)-47007)
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Arhitektonski fakultetTY - CONF AU - Ćorović, Dragana AU - Vuksannović-Macura, Zlata AU - Milinković, Marija PY - 2020 UR - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1896 AB - The split into “nature” and “culture” has lasted for centuries in Western civilization and remains the framework through which we consider various important problems of contemporary society. In the last decades of the twentieth century there has been a clear reaction to this dichotomy, first in a geography discourse then elsewhere, and a move towards studying the construction and representation of nature in cultural history. A very important feature in the approach to design for recovering contemporary urban landscape is urban greenery regeneration as well as the study of the urban greenery past. The broader historical context of our study is the establishment of new capitalist relations towards urban territory in nineteenth century Belgrade, and with it a new distribution of political and economic power. This process led to the disappearance of the main green spaces in the city and the suppression of the memory they carried. The reconstruction of Belgrade’s historic core was implemented according to Emilijan Josimović’s urban plan (1867). Nevertheless, it contained some very important indications of ecological thinking. In order to elaborate a refined approach to environmental and cultural problems that Belgrade, like other cities, faces today, we bring to light and critically examine those features and aspects of Josimović’s plan that established organic relations and balance between nature, culture, city memory and city development. PB - Department of Architecture – University of Bologna C3 - CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities’ Transformation T1 - Re-Thinking City Space in the Context of Nineteenth Century Belgrade DO - 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6596 ER -
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Ćorović, D., Vuksannović-Macura, Z.,& Milinković, M.. (2020). Re-Thinking City Space in the Context of Nineteenth Century Belgrade. in CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities’ Transformation Department of Architecture – University of Bologna.. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6596
Ćorović D, Vuksannović-Macura Z, Milinković M. Re-Thinking City Space in the Context of Nineteenth Century Belgrade. in CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities’ Transformation. 2020;. doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6596 .
Ćorović, Dragana, Vuksannović-Macura, Zlata, Milinković, Marija, "Re-Thinking City Space in the Context of Nineteenth Century Belgrade" in CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities’ Transformation (2020), https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6596 . .