City and nature environmental strategies in the history of Belgrade urbanization

Abstract

Deterioration of 'men-nature' relationship in a city environment raises the issue of sustainable city-nature relationship, being acute current global problem today. However, interest in and concern about this problem, as well as the attempts to give a response to this problem, are older than the contemporary initiative of sustainability and have been present ever since the society has become aware of the fact that the 'industrial' has become a dominant characteristic of the civilization. This paper places an accent on research and analysis of theoretical deliberations, as well as on spatial relations of town planning ideas which have emerged as a response to ecological problems of the development of Belgrade. The paper advocates the attitude that presently it is possible to act rationally only by understanding the meaning of the phenomenon, process or situation in the history of the city, actually, that serious researches on future development should rely on experience of historical models and theoretical deliberations, as well as on the possibility for their improvement by implementing contemporary technical and technological achievements.

Narušavanje odnosa 'čovek - priroda' u gradskom okruženju postavlja pitanje održivog odnosa grad - priroda, trenutno veoma aktuelnog globalnog problema. Međutim, interesovanje i zabrinutost za ovaj problem, kao i pokušaji da se na njega odgovori stariji su od savremene inicijative održivosti i prisutni su još od kada je društvo postalo svesno činjenice da je 'industrijsko' postalo dominantno obeležje civilizacije. Rad stavlja akcenat na istraživanje i analizu teorijskih promišljanja, kao i prostornih realizacija urbanističkih ideja nastalih kao odgovor na ekološke probleme razvoja Beograda. Rad zastupa stav da je racionalno delovanje u sadašnjosti moguće ostvariti samo kroz razumevanje smisla pojave, procesa ili stanja u istoriji grada, odnosno da ozbiljna istraživanja o budućem razvoju traba da se oslanjaju na iskustva istorijskih modela i teorijskih promišljanja, kao i na mogućnosti njihovog unapređenja primenom savremenih tehničko-tehnoloških dostignuća.