THE CITY IN SELF-MANAGEMENT: THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW BELGRADE’S - ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY
THE CITY IN SELF-MANAGEMENT: THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW BELGRADE’S - ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the development of Socialist Yugoslavia’s urban policies in the decades after the break with the Soviet Union. The new openness toward the influence of Western modernist architecture and the resulting changes in the urban planning are reflected in the history of New Belgrade. A special attention is given to the relation between the construction of New Belgrade and the ruling ideology of workers’ self-management. Apart from the official policies, the article opens the question of the ways in which the social movements Pom below influenced the practice of city planning in Yugoslavia. Finally, the text briefly discusses the potency of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘right to the city’ as a potential guidance for answering the social contradictions and public denouncements, which the Yugoslav modernist architecture, faced in the 1980s.

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