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Nebojša Čamprag is a Guest Professor of International Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt, and the principal researcher of the Research Lab & Networking Platform “Urban Morphosis Lab” (UML). In his research, Nebojša investigates interactions between socio-economic and political transitions and the built environment in a comparative and international context.
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This cumulative habilitation thesis is composed of one book chapter and four peer-reviewed academic papers, written and published in the period between 2014 and 2019. In the focus is the phenomenon of urban regeneration, perceived as a consequence of socioeconomic and political transitions.
This article focuses on the case of the synagogue of Subotica, a Serbian city burdened by the rising socioeconomic challenges and emigration. The building was constructed at the peak of industrialization in 1902 by the formerly powerful Jewish minority, when the city was
incorporated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After nearly four decades of negl...
The urban identity of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, the State of Hesse, is above all else defined by its status as an international financial center. Plenty of national and international financial corporations are to this day competing with the height and appearance of their skyscrapers in this “smallest metropolis in the world”. However, the image...
With 2019 marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2019) and the collapse of state-socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the team at the “Urban Morphosis Lab” research group decided to utilize this unique opportunity to reflect and discuss on the ways in which the processes and outcomes of post-socialist transition hav...
The multifaceted phenomenon of shrinking cities, widespread today across Europe, caused complex and comprehensive transformations of demographic, socio-economic and structural components of its cityscape. The phenomenon demonstrated particular impact on the cities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), as a direct consequence of post-socia...
As one of the most prestigious initiatives through which the European Union aims to promote richness and diversity of its cultures, the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) also holds an enormous potential for promoting urban regeneration and development. The aim of this paper is to examine the influences and implications of this program on the ways...
This edited collection brings together a wide range of topics that shed light on the social, cultural, economic, political and spatio-temporal changes influencing post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe. Different case studies are presented through papers that were presented at the Euroacademia International Conference series. Imaginaries, identiti...
After the fall of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the socialist legacy became a matter of contested discourses, coming from the new national governments. However, with the recently awakening nostalgia for socialism and growing international interest for the socialist pasts, the approaches to its legacies began gradually to chan...
This comparative study on the urban re-imagineering performed through large-scale urban refurbishment focuses on the specific post-socialist and post-conflict contexts of former Yugoslavia. Through the analysis of legislative and planning documents, expert interviews, reports, and media coverage, this study shows how initiatives for the implementat...
Although a considerable body of literature on shrinking cities has been produced in the recent years, a majority is focused on the experiences of declining industrial regions from the Global North. Nonetheless, these cases still hold a significant basis for understanding a range of manifestations of urban decline and could also serve as important f...
Many scholars have discussed urban decline, and one of the emerging discourses has called for redefining the crisis as an opportunity to establish new urban governance models. This paper evaluates the outcomes of such innovative approaches to managing urban decline by identifying its major implementation challenges, effects and outcomes, and pointi...
This paper aims to reflect on the current approaches that recognize values of the socialist legacy in the cities of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), after three decades of comprehensive socio-economic and spatial transformation processes. Special focus has been put on two contradicting processes that run in parallel. The first considers relative s...
Both urban research and planning practice lately demonstrated some contributions to understanting and dealing with the phenomenon of urban shrinkage. However, these advancements seem to have had varied influence in the former Central and Eastern Europe, although affected the most by population decrease and industrial regression since the political...
In this paper, we explore how state-led regulatory planning is utilised to push for delivery of an urban megaproject (UMP) in the specific context of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our focus is on the large-scale brownfield redevelopment project ‘Belgrade Waterfront’ under implementation in the Serbian capital, a joint venture between t...
The focus of the book is on urban identity, which is becoming an important issue as a result of a range of global, economy-driven changes that cities are facing today. Frankfurt and Rotterdam are selected for analysis and comparison. Both of these cities lost most of their historical identities during the war destructions and post-war renewal, chal...
As a central London railway terminus and London Underground station
complex, Waterloo is Britain's busiest railway station by passenger usage. It is also the
15th busiest passenger terminal in Europe and the 91st busiest railway station in the world.
In order to satisfy growing needs for transportation the complex was facing tremendous
expansions t...
The modernisation of Frankfurt’s destroyed Altstadt, followed by the gradual formation of a skyline nearby, were both results of a post-war decision that rejected reconstruction as a common solution. Current planning and image-making in Frankfurt takes a major turn; alongside the dominant image of an important global player, implementation of a cer...
As a central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, Waterloo is Britain's busiest railway station by passenger usage. It is also the 15th busiest passenger terminal in Europe and the 91st
busiest railway station in the world. In order to satisfy growing needs for transportation the complex was facing tremendous expansions t...
Building urban resilience is an extremely complex task, highly depending on given circumstances. Each specific constellation of risks requires corresponding solutions, which illustrates at its best the complexity of the tasks that local urban planners and policy makers are facing today. Understanding and learning from different
successful cases co...
Contemporary urban image and identity of the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany is generally constructed around its dominating role as an important global player. Spatial translation of more than 200 international financial institutions based in the city is its recognizable skyline, which is, as an exception to other European cities, developed in...
Frankfurt is one of the most international cities in Germany, with well-established identity of financial capital of both the country and the European Union. Still, city image of this modern global metropolis, marked by its distinct skyline, was significantly modified after the new premises for the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters were cons...
Frankfurt is one of the most international cities in Germany, with well-established identity of financial capital of both the country and the European Union. Still, city image of this modern global metropolis, marked by its distinct skyline, was significantly modified after the new premises for the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters were cons...
In contrast to US cities, which allowed construction of skyscrapers in central urban areas, the post-World War II development of western Europe generally involved new construction in peripheral zones, while urban centers were mostly preserved or reconstructed to resemble their state before the war. As exceptions to the rule, Frankfurt and Rotterdam...
The research on residential architecture in Subotica from the 19th and the 20th century until today considered mostly collective residential buildings, most of which were of tenement function. However, in despite of its significance and varieties, much more numerous ground-floor houses were still not analysed separately, but rather within a wider r...
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Researching Youth’s Apprehension of the Yugoslav Architectural Heritage and the role of web-based sources as collective memory agents.
After the collapse of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the former socialist countries’ inclusion into the competitive global economies advanced as both; temporally and spatially uneven processes. These uneven processes presented myriad diversities, thereby implying significant shifts and high levels of creativity in finding ways of adapting to new forms of socio-political realities, which in turn offered a multitude of opportunities for urban research. Subsequently, scholarly attention has been paid particularly on examining interconnections between historical-, sociological-, and market-related aspects of transitioning processes. However, the exact implications of their spatial transformations have been largely absent within systematic research. Contrary to the often more adaptable socio-political structures of cities, built urban environment requires more time to adapt to changes and consequently reflect the new ideological concepts. This thereby warrants thirty years of comprehensive transition (1989-2019) as an optimum point of departure for undertaking a thorough and in-depth reflection. Hence, the international conference “Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition” seeks to bring together leading urban academics to discuss issues of post-socialist transition and a multitude of its effects on built urban environment from diverse perspectives. In addition, the aim is also to challenge and advance both our knowledge and practice around the complex links within the neoliberal development agenda, socio-political changes, post-socialist identity formation, representation of cities and the urban space.
