Abstract
Presentation of the post-socialist city dossier
Highlights
Belasri investigates the trajectory of the shopping mall BBI Center in Sarajevo, in the past known as Sarajka, its privatization, and transformation of the attached public square - the October Square
The analysis shows that commercial goals and consumption guided the transformation of the shopping mall and public square, in practice, the shopping mall and its surroundings are limitedly "consumed" for commercial activities by the residents; rather, it is a place for leisure activities
The postsocialist urban planning system showed a lack of responsiveness, and it was connected with corrupt practices, which triggered populist urban movements
Summary
While some postsocialist cities were rapidly shaped by the new ideological, socio-political, economic, and cultural circumstances, others remained on the edge of this urban realm transition focus. This issue of Urbana examines the current postsocialist city development projects, policies, dynamics between the local actors and urban movements, residents' perspectives, and it focuses on different postsocialist cities. The author discusses the change of the urban morphology and the project's planning process, which entirely changed the urban realm of socialist Skopje from the Yugoslavia period.
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