New Belgrade Post-War Identity – Sustainable Modern City – Urban Transformation
New Belgrade Post-War Identity – Sustainable Modern City – Urban Transformation

Summary/Abstract: The 20th century has produced enormous developments meriting admiration and praise, but also criticism and scepticism with regard to their sustainability. New Belgrade was a product of the new socialist post-war ideology which required a new ideal city, a symbol of a new society. The new city was the pride of the communist authorities and represented a connection between two independent urban settlements, Belgrade and Zemun. The totalitarian architectural brutalism produced residential quarters that were monumental in a very negative sense. Their monotonous morphology exploded far beyond the human scale, leading to estrangement between people and the city. But the present inhabitants of New Belgrade have increasingly adapted to their living space, particularly in the last decade, and rapidly reshaped the physical structure and demography, a profit-oriented development, though, that has its price.

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