Belgrade: The 21st Century Metropolis Of Southeast Europe (the Urban Book Series)
by Biljana Arandelovic /
2020 / English / PDF
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This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first, entitledThe urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history, introduces the reader to the city, and is followed by a chapter onBelgrades urban plans through history. The book continues with a chapter on one of the major urban projects in the former Yugoslavia, the construction of New Belgrade, its development and results, entitledNew Belgrade: from no mans land to modern city. In turn, the following three chapters explore three dominant contemporary topics:Belgrades riverfront redevelopment Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala andSustainable Belgrade. Expansion of the pedestrian zone in the city center. The book draws to a close with a chapter onFuture predictions: South-Eastern European metropolis of the 21stcentury.This chapter in particular discusses large city projects and includes predictions about the citys future.
