Revisiting the Contested Case of Belgrade Waterfront Transformation: From Unethical Urban Governance to Landscape Degradation

This paper examines two large urban projects within a defined theoretical and methodological framework. Firstly, we analyse how the city administration in Belgrade, in post-socialist Serbia, managed the initial steps of the transformation of a part of the old town into the new large-scale developmen...

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Published in:Land (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 5; p. 988
Main Authors: Corovic, Dragana, Korac, Srdan T, Milinkovic, Marija
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2025
Subjects:
Analysis
Architects
Architecture
City planning
Commodification
critical architectural/planning practice
Decision making
ethical decision-making
Laws, regulations and rules
Morality
Neoliberalism
Political aspects
Politics
post-socialist period
Public interest
Public policy
Rivers
socialist period
Tourism
town planning
Urban development
Urban environments
urban landscape transformation
Waterfront development
Waterfronts
World War I
Serbia
Sava River
ISSN:2073-445X, 2073-445X
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Summary:This paper examines two large urban projects within a defined theoretical and methodological framework. Firstly, we analyse how the city administration in Belgrade, in post-socialist Serbia, managed the initial steps of the transformation of a part of the old town into the new large-scale development, the Belgrade Waterfront (BW), on the right bank of the Sava River. The contested outcome of the land transformation process contributes to a recognition of the unethical decision-making and performance of the responsible city authorities. Secondly, the postwar planning and construction of New Belgrade, in particular its Central Zone, is critically examined from the aspect of radical urban landscape transformation and its impact on society. Through a critical examination of the spatial development of the socialist period, we aim to identify emancipatory architectural and urban practises that could be an alternative to contemporary spatial production and that might provide a notion of key strategies for (re)establishing corresponding forms of socio-spatial justice. The two aforementioned research subjects are examined using different research questions, methodological tools, and different theoretical frameworks, which overlap, merge, and combine in the part of the study where the obtained results are discussed.
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ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land14050988