URBANIZACIJA SOCIJALISTIČKOG BEOGRADA: Istorijski pogled na neke aspekte urbanizacije Beograda 1945–1970.
The Process of Urbanisation of Socialist Belgrade. The Historical View of Some Aspects of Belgrade Urbanisation 1945–1970

Summary/Abstract: Urbanisation was one of the main characteristics of the development of Serbian society after the Second World War. During the socialist period Belgrade was changed significantly. The town with 300.000 inhabitants developed into the large city over only the two and half decades, primarily thanks to the mechanic influx of the inhabitants. Belgrade has been populated by unskilled workers. The vast majority of the new inhabitants settled in the city were uneducated and even illiterate. The huge influx of the inhabitants caused that only the 1/3 of the inhabitants of Belgrade were the native dwellers of the city in the two decades after the War. Between 1945 and 1970 the age composition of Belgrade has been changed, in terms of growing inhabitants older, and the farm population have being continually declined. Over the two and half mentioned decades 60.000 flats have been built But, due to great war destruction and the large-scale migration from country to town, so that the urban population of Belgrade has more than doubled since the war, there was the constant leak of housing . The great number of the dwellers of Belgrade has been accommodating in the small flats. A lot of people have being lived in the unsanitary housing places. A part of homeless population in Belgrade resorted to illegal constructing of houses, mainly in the suburbs, where people also have been living in the adapted garages, sheds and basements. The development of Belgrade since the War also has been determined by the process of industrialisation. A few factories in the heavy industry have been constructed, but the problem of technology modernisation has not been solved. At the beginning of the 1960s employment numbers tended to stagnate. There were the leak of the skilled workers and high educated cadres, and the surplus manpower. Many of the unskilled and semiskilled workers sought temporary employment abroad, and the rate of labour migration to the countries of Western Europe has been notably rised.

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