Konkursna praksa kao deo planiranja obnove priobalja Beograda početkom 21. veka

Abstract

The current processes of the Belgrade waterfront planning require the solving of very important locations through a transparent democratic procedures. The need to prepare projects for potential future investors in advance has arisen as a result of socio-economic circumstances. The urban planning in the period of transition no longer reflects the striving for the highest achievements in the profession, but it moves towards the presumed intentions and interests of a potential private capital. The neglect of public interest and absence of a sense of togetherness has occurred in the conditions of neoliberal economy leaving the consequences on the quality of architecture and planning process. This research uses a case study approach to identify and analyse a new current phenomena which directs the attention of architectural profession and general public to the sporadic competition activities on the Sava and Danube river banks. At the same time, the attention of the city's institutions is necessarily directed to the interests of private companies as the holders of new capital. In majority of cases, this relates to the preparation of locations on the Belgrade waterfront, actually the preparation of territories for the future potential developers. The analysed examples were realized with the support and participation of the professional architectural and urban associations. The documentation and chronological analysis reveal the partial sporadic competition practices which give hope that certain waterfront parts will be solved through the contemporary concepts. The new mechanisms affect the launch of architectural competitions as a check of a potential of certain territory, but in Serbia they no longer represent an obligation in the realization. Such practice will leave far-reaching consequences on the urban landscape of waterfront zones.