ID-ENTITET BEOGRADA
BELGRADE ID-ENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Inserting division (en dash) in the word „identity” and an attempt to introduce and explain the newly established concept, briefly determine the direction of this work. Analysis of susceptibility to personification initially leads to the conclusion that identity stands as one of the many terms of man’s subjectivity transferred to the city. As their recipient and carrier, the city has the „identity”, the „spirit”, „memory”, and often grows into „personality”, in which can be recognized its instances. By analogy with the classic Ego, as well as the self of the analytic psychology, the „Ego of the city” is viewed as a rational axis of balance, unity and organization, but also as an activating factor in the formation of urban identity. Th e mechanism carried by the drive and the principle of pleasure, like the psychological Id, acts contrary, opposing the organization and planning of urban system. It is the creator of an entity that has no organization, no „evaluation, not knowing good or evil, neither morality.” As the opposite and the reverse side of identity, „identity” occurs in the number of its emanations: illegal construction, architecture without architects, urban planning without urban planners, areas of urban alienation, unselected demolition, examples of abolishing the public interest... Work continues by stating examples of id-entity and „id-iomatic” buildings of Belgrade (such as agglomerations of alienated industrial modernism, edifices erected ignoring the standards of urban planning, exemplary betraying of bonum commune in the renovation of city parks, Bridge at Ada, etc.). The conclusion is that, rather than by development purposes, the present appearance of Belgrade, is largely determined by simple causality, activated by the necessity of satisfying lower needs, arbitrary alteration and abandoning of concepts planned, the adoption of diff erent, oft en contradictory and short-term goals, which all crowns with legalization of a number of informal structures that city then conceals by false paternity. Terms immanent to selfh ood are thus no longer given to Belgrade bona fide, it is less and less subject to personalization and personification, empathy, less frequently is You or Me, increasingly it is It (Id) – the city of the affected identity and reinforced id-entity.

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