Planning airports in heroic times of Yugoslavia – looking backwards in order to understand the present

Abstract

This research aims to open up a discussion about former Yugoslavia’s heroic planning goals resulting from socialist regime established in the early 1950s. Strongly influenced by the socialist ideology, the increase of air traffic capacity and establishment of the airport network was one of the main objectives of the Yugoslav planning practice in the period from 1950 to 1980. Our main hypothesis is that although planning practice nowadays continues to emphasize the importance of the airport network, this network is still not established and single airports act as competitive parties and not as parts of the network.