Zlata Vuksanovic-Macura

• Dr - Senior Research Associate
• Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

During 2024, two significant jubilees will be celebrated—100 years since the First Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers in Prague and the publication of the first volume of the monograph “Geomorphology” by renowned Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927), one of the Congress initiators. Subsequent Congresses were held in Poland (192...

After suffering extensive damage caused by the Second World War, Serbia went through a reconstruction period. Between 1944 and the mid1950s, the government prioritised economic growth and worked on rebuilding and modernising the infrastructure, urban structures, and systems. Urban planning was seen as crucial in creating the conditions for state de...

This study addressed problems related to the protection, reconstruction, and revitalisation of modern heritage, particularly the regeneration of mass housing estates built after WWII and facing the contemporary perils of urban decay and deterioration. It presented interdisciplinary research investigating the possibility of extending and complementi...

Local markets have been a special setting throughout human history. Apart from their important social role, they had immeasurable economic importance as primary forms of exchange of goods (trade). Nonetheless, they experienced numerous transformational changes that affected their functioning. Like other countries, Serbia has a long tradition of mar...

In this paper, we investigate the role of urban planning in providing social housing in Serbia. Social housing is essential in providing affordable and sustainable housing options for low-income individuals and families. In recent years, the issue of social housing has gained traction as cities around the world face rising housing prices and a grow...

Demographic factors such as age, income, household composition, and population growth profoundly impact housing markets, affecting prices, housing provisions, needs, and types. In post-socialist countries, transition processes, historical heritage, socio-cultural, and political factors additionally influenced demographic trends and trends in housin...

Comparisons are needed to assess the successes and failures of today’s public policies, as well as to promote policy learning. This is particularly important in the case of policies for low-income and disadvantaged groups such as the Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic minority, whose housing conditions starkly contrast with those of the general populati...

Retail, shopping and consumption are important determinants of the modern city, its society, way of life, spatial structure, and its economy. Over the past 20 years, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, has been marked by changes in the retail sector in terms of the structure of retail facilities, shopping space, consumer behaviour and mobility. This r...

This research examines the spatial transformations of postsocialist cities in the context of the polarized national urban system. Focusing on two different periods (1990–2000 and 2000–2014/2015), we study the patterns of spatial changes in 15 selected cities in Serbia in terms of urban sprawl, densification, and urban shrinkage. Using an open-sourc...

New Belgrade, home to about 250,000 inhabitants, is part of Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia. Despite this area’s slightly older history, New Belgrade’s large-scale development began after the end of the Second World War. This chapter critically examines one century of New Belgrade (1919-2020), focusing on its transformation since 19...

Рад анализира услове и могућности очувања вернакуларне архитектуре на подручју Старе планине у Србији. Током теренског истраживања које је спроведено од 2003. до 2015. године евидентирани су и архитектонски снимљени објекти градитељског наслеђа у селима која се налазе на западним падинама Старе планине. Посебно су истраживане области Горњи Висок и...

Cultural and entertainment activities have become an important part of the life of the city's population. Spaces of entertainment are being developed in almost all parts of the city-in the inner city, in larger neighborhoods both in the city center and on the outskirts, near the centers of labor, shopping areas (e.g., attractive streets or shopping...

Citizen participation in the planning and decision-making process in the European post-socialist context is much debated. Still, the involvement of excluded communities in the urban planning process remains understudied. This paper presents and discusses the application of an innovative participatory approach designed to ensure active involvement o...

„Smernice za izradu lokalnih stambenih strategija” imaju za cilj da jedinicama lokalne samouprave (JLS) pruže praktična uputstva u izradi ovih dokumenata. Osmišljene su tako da unaprede kapacitete JLS da identifikuju i analiziraju stambene potrebe, definišu ciljeve, mere i aktivnosti, sa posebnim akcentom na uspostavljanje mehanizama za praćenje i...

Publikacija je razvijena u cilju pružanja podrške jedinicama lokalne samouprave u holističkom planiranju i implementaciji mera socijalnog stanovanja i aktivne inkluzije za osetljive grupe. Sastoji se od dva osnovna dela. U prvom delu analizirani su pravni i javno-politički okvir stambene, socijalne, obrazovne, zdravstvene i politike zapošljavanja i...

This paper discusses the architects’ attitude toward housing problems of the large population of urban poor in interwar Serbia. A severe housing crisis that shook Europe after the end of World War I was also very pronounced in the newly formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia. In European countries, especially those with pro-s...

International workshop of the research project Living 2060

The concept of continuous planning (CP) refers to the periodic revisions of master plans in response to uncertainties faced by long-term urban planning. In this paper, we analyse CP practices in two European cities – Stavanger (Norway) and Belgrade (Serbia) and present how they cater for innovative planning tools which respond to the need to balanc...

This chapter focuses on the spatial segregation of Roma settlements within Serbian cities, shaped by the long-standing ethnic distance and social exclusion. In order to understand the broader context, the historical background against which Roma settlements emerged in Serbia, as well as their current demographic, legislative, and urban characterist...

Plan for the reconstruction of Belgrade, formulated by Emilijan Josimović in 1867 is one of the most researched urban plans in Serbia. Anyhow, one aspect of the plan, the survey of Belgrade, has remained outside the focus of scholars. This paper analyzes and presents the surveying of Belgrade, made by Josimović, as part of the activities on making...

Continuous planning is a formal, repetitive process of rhythmic revision of an urban or regional plan, intending to revise and change the plan if there are inconsistencies with reality or the development is not in the direction of the state of the city that the community perceives as desirable. The first ideas about continuous planning in Serbia ap...

As a signatory of all relevant international documents that support climate change issues, the Republic of Serbia is conducting a continuous process of harmonization of the legal and planning framework. The expected adoption of the National Climate Change Strategy, together with the Action plan will accomplish an important step toward establishing...

Рад приказује промене просторних образаца трговине у Србији у 19. веку настале под утицајем процеса урбанизације. Анализирано је како су се раст броја становника у урбаним срединама и други чиниоци, те последично ширење градске територије и трансформација постојећих структура и функција, одражавали на физички оквир трговине и простор у коме се одви...

The subject of this paper are urban innovations that emerged from the Belgrade Master Plan, adopted by the Belgrade Assembly in September 2003. Twelve new spatial solutions that were directly related to the overall goals of the plan are presented. These are proposals for grand city projects created in 2001-2003 during the development of the Master...

Кoristeći rezultate Ankete o prihodima i uslovima života (The Survey on Income and Living Conditions – SILC) u radu su analizirani pokazatelji koji se tiču uslova stanovanja i stambene deprivacije u Srbiji, u periodu od 2013. do 2017. godine, na osnovu kojih su uočeni i prikazani neki trendovi o stanovanju u državi. Anketa se sprovodi na godišnjem...

The publication that is before the reader, entitled From the Notebooks of Jovan Cvijić – Selected Pages and Interpretations, is the result of cooperation between the Belgrade City Museum and the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. It has been prepared with a deep awareness of the importance of Jovan Cvijić’s scientific research work and wit...

Стамбене целине и њихове урбане матрице су важан елемент градског пејзажа,а различити аспекти њихове заштите све више привлаче пажњу. Знатан део тог интересовања још увек је усмерен на појединачне објекте и њихове архитектонске вредности, а много мање на њихова урбанистичка решења по којима су оне формиране и трансформације којима су изложене. Ове...

This article aims to underline the necessity of including historical enquiry in reaching the complex goals of sustainable development of urban riverscapes. Its proposed method is a survey conducted through selection, interpretation and systematization of the relevant historical data that consider the Belgrade cityscape, and specifically, the New Be...

U članku je reč o urbanističkim planovima za transformaciju i uređenje beogradskog priobalja, urađenim u periodu između dva svetska rata. Razmatrani su planovi i projekti koji su obrađivali pitanja rečnog saobraćaja, luka i pristaništa, regulisanja obala i nasipanja barovitih terena. Oni su projektovani u tesnoj sprezi sa rešavanjem železničkog čvo...

Vernacular architecture is an important segment of a cultural identity of the Balkan Peninsula. This study enables understanding of common types of vernacular architecture by comparing construction, function, and forms in rural areas in Macedonia and Serbia. The main aim is to identify similarities in vernacular rural dwellings dated from the 19th...

ABSTRACT In 1867, the engineer Emilijan Josimović developed a plan for the regulation and reconstruction of Belgrade's Varoš u Šancu, which was almost completely implemented in the following period. In the literature, the importance of Josimović's work for the success of the plan has been discussed in considerable detail, while the influence and co...

Mnogo je knjiga napisano o Beogradu, ali je malo onih o mapama na kojima je predstavljen. Ova monografija prikazuje karte i planove iz Zbirke za arhitekturu i urbanizam Muzeja grada Beograda, nastale u vremenu od 1865. do 1969. godine. / Many books have been written about Belgrade, but only a few cover the subject of maps of Belgrade. This publicat...

This article describes a squatter settlement that arose in Belgrade between the two world wars and the communities that lived in it and fought for their right to housing. At the end of the war in 1918, a completely new phenomenon appeared in Belgrade—the squatter settlement. Jatagan-mala was the largest and best known among them. It is used as a ca...

Istorijske karte i planovi predstavljaju autentičan i verodostojan izvor informacija o urbanističkom, istorijskom i društvenom razvoju gradova i doprinose boljem razumevanju događaja u prošlosti. Nacionalni i lokalni arhivi i muzeji čuvaju veoma značajne fondove i zbirke u kojima se nalaze urbanistički planovi, crteži i srodna dokumentacija koja sv...

The paper presents three architectural-urbanistic contests organized with the aim of ensuring permanent accommodation for the Belgrade City Museum. Though founded in 1903, the Museum is yet to be assigned a building for its purposes and has not instated a permanent exhibition. Relocations have been a constant challenge for the Museum, since it was...

Abstract: This paper studies land cover changes of Belgrade, over the past three centuries. For this purpose we applied an interdisciplinary approach by integrating historical and landscape ecological perspectives. We produced four reconstruction maps presenting land cover around the turn of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, based on histori...

Urbanistički zavod Beograda u 2018. godini, kada nastaje ovaj tekst, obeležava sedam decenija postojanja. Jedna od njegovih najvažnijih i najprepoznatljivijih aktivnosti jeste izrada urbanističkih planova Beograda. Te planove su karakterisali različiti nivoi detaljnosti, prostorni obuhvati, teme i sadržaji, motivi zbog kojih su inicirani, godine na...

U radu je prikazan proces izrade plana detaljne regu-lacije neformalnog romskog naselja Mala Guba u Prokuplju. Opisani su i dis-kutovano je o ključnim koracima procesa kroz koje se prošlo, kako bi na kraju plan prihvatili Romi i usvojila Skupština opštine Prokuplje. Proces i njegovi koraci koji su ovde izloženi, nisu definisani Zakonom o planiranju...

Istorijski planovi i karte predstavljaju značajne izvore za istraživače iz različitih naučnih disciplina, pomažu boljem razumevanju događaja u prošlosti i shvatanju nekog prostora u određenom trenutku njegovog postojanja. Ipak, sadržaj većine zbirki istorijskih planova i karata koji se nalaze u relevantnim domaćim institucijama još uvek nije u dovo...

Izložba „Branislav Kojić: prostor u selu, selo u prostoru” održana je od 5. do 31. oktobra 2017. godine u Galeriji nauke i tehnike SANU, Đure Jakšića 2, Beograd. Autori su: dr Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, dr Marija Drobnjaković, mast. Jovana Todorić i mast. Aleksandra Spalević. Izložbu je realizovao Geografski institut „Jovan Cvijić“ SANU u okviru proj...

This review looks at three publications that discuss the timeless issue of the relationship between power and space in capital cities located in a broad temporal and geographic framework. By applying Adam T. Smith’s model of interrelation among politics, landscape and civic values, the editors and authors of Political Landscapes of Capital Cities (...

An architect and ruralist, professor and academician, Branislav Kojić made a remarkable contribution to the study of village architecture and villages, their design and planning. His approach was thorough, systematic, comprehensive and interdisciplinary, and resulted in the establishment of a special trend in the study of the village in these regio...

Књига Из бележница Јована Цвијића – прикази и тумачења настала је као резултат сарадње Музеја града Београда и Географског института „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ. Ова публикација приређена је са дубоком свешћу о значају научно-истраживачког рада Јована Цвијића и у уверењу да се књигом, концепцијски домишљеном, стручно написаном и брижљиво уређеном, непознат...

Izložbu čine dva glavna segmenta: svetlo i tamno. Segment naslovljen svetlo obuhvata pozitivna rešenja i primere dobre prakse, koji su realizovani u poslednjih par decenija i koji su inicirali šire akcije unapređenja životnih i stambenih uslova romske zajednice. Prikazane su konkretne graditeljske aktivnosti, koje su sprovodile lokalne zajednice, o...

George Pavlovic Kovalevsky, architect and urban planner, belongs to the most significant authors who created in the period between the Two World Wars in Belgrade. Yet, his work and life have rarely been the subject of scholarly literature, while the study of his housing projects has been overlooked. This paper discusses housing projects designed by...

Using the results of the survey conducted in 2014 in 20 municipalities in Serbia, this paper describes housing solutions used by low-income households to meet their housing needs, particularly by inhabitants of the Roma settlements. Focusing on solutions applied by households living in self-constructed family houses, it’s analysed to what extent th...

Ovo je knjiga o međunarodnom urbanističkom konkursu za Beograd koji je sproveden tokom 1921−22. godine kao osnova za izradu generalnog plana grada 1923-1924. Beogradski konkurs je bio deo evropskih tokova u razvoju modernog urbanističkog planiranja gde su međunarodne utakmice bile svojevrsna razmena iskustava i ideja.

Članak prikazuje uspostavljanje i razvoj francusko-srpskih urbanističkih veza u prvoj polovini dvadesetog veka. Razmatrano je kao su francuski i srpski autori, poklonici različitih estetskih načela, inkorporirali francusku urbanističku teoriju i praksu u urbanistički diskurs Srbije i Beograda, doprinoseći uvođenju urbanizma kao naučnog metoda i una...

Belgrade’s connection by railway with the West firmed up European influences. In the first half of the 20th century and especially between the two world wars, railways expanded to the point of becoming an obstacle to the development of the city. The paper analyses the interwar plans and projects for the development of railway network in Belgrade an...

Izložba prikazuje naučno argumentovane činjenice o uslovima stanovanja Roma u međuratnom Beogradu. Predstavljena je stambena situacija Roma koji su živeli u nekoliko najpoznatijih sirotinjskih naselja – Jatagan mala, Pištolj mala, Marinkova bara, Orlovska na Čuburi itd. Postavka obuhvata bogat arhivski materijal, od planova i karata, preko fotograf...

The international competition for the master plan of Belgrade held in 1921/2 was a significant national event attracting considerable attention from professional publics across Europe. Even though it has been frequently mentioned in the literature, there has been little research on the competition, the submitted entries and their authors. What usua...

Housing Models for Substandard Roma Settlements: Guidelines for Local Self-Governments, civil society organizations and Roma community is a handbook resulted from the work on the selection and refinement of the housing models used so far in Serbia for the improvement of housing conditions of Roma and other vulnerable persons. It provides guidelines...

This paper describes five examples of mapping and enumerating poor informal Roma settlements in Serbia, implemented in the last decade by non-governmental organizations and Roma associations as a prelude to different upgrading projects. Their contexts, processes and outcomes are discussed and their common patterns and approaches are summarized. The...

PIŠTOLJ-MALA: BELGRADE'S MOST UNDERDEVELOPED UNSANITARY NEIGHBOURHOOD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS АBSTRACT: Pištolj-Mala was one of several unsanitary and illegally constructed neighbourhoods in Belgrade between the two world wars. As an area mostly populated by extremely poor people who lived in unwholesome dwellings or improvised shelters, it rem...

This contribution to the history of town planning in 20th-century Belgrade brings fresh insights into the origin of the project for Kotež Neimar and the blueprints done in 1921 by the Viennese architects Emil Hoppe and Otto Schönthal. Their project for the Kotež Neimar neighbourhood is not recorded in the European literature devoted to the work of...

By constructing the tenement building in Radenička (Workers) Street in 1911, after a project by the architect Jelisaveta Načić, Belgrade began to provide housing for the poor or, in modern-day terms, for socially disadvantaged groups. Housing shortages, which began to be felt in the early 20th century and soared after the First World War, led the i...

Јатаган-мала, нелегално насеље настало крајем 1919. године на празном општинском земљишту између Булевара Франше Д'Епереа и комплекса Државне болнице, током целог периода између два светска рата била је једна од честих политичких и стручних тема повезаних са развојем Београда и становањем у њему. Међутим, до данас није сагледана целовита слика о на...

Knjiga obrađuje temu siromašnih romskih naselja i stanovanje u urbanim sredinama u Jugoistočnoj Evropi. U fokusu knjige su urbanistički i arhitektonski predlozi za unapređenje romskih naselja. Ovo je knjiga o postojećem stanju i o mogućoj budućnosti.