From Industrial Pasts to Culture-Oriented Futures: Urban Planning in Postindustrial Rijeka and Zagreb
From Industrial Pasts to Culture-Oriented Futures: Urban Planning in Postindustrial Rijeka and Zagreb

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how urban planning discourse and policy documents in Rijeka and Zagreb articulate the two cities’ futures in the context of postindustrial transformation. The analysis reveals that policy makers’ strategies for the revitalisation of deindustrialised sites prioritise two central dimensions: space as a resource and the value of industrial heritage. Other dimensions of industrial identity, such as knowledge, skills, and social ties developed through industrial work, are largely neglected. By adopting a presentist theoretical lens, the authors show that urban planning in the two postindustrial cities seeks to reconfigure urban space while simultaneously reimagining the cities’ temporal horizons.

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