The Role of Open Spaces in Restructuring the Cerak Vinogradi Housing Estate in Belgrade

Abstract

The paper’s subject examines the role of open spaces in restructuring the Cerak Vinogradi housing estate, planned and built in Belgrade in period 1977-1985. The paper provides a historical comparative analysis with an overview of spatial processes on the one hand and social processes on the other hand by identifying the role of open spaces in the structure of the Cerak Vinogradi housing estate from construction to the present day. Spatial processes are shown through mapping the urbomorphological processes of open space transformations, while social processes include a review of the regulatory framework - laws, regulations, and plans, that led to visible changes in space. The work aims to establish the stages of morphogenesis in which there was a paradigm shift in the management and use of open spaces of the housing estate.