Abstract
This article focuses on the transformation of post-socialist cities through the prism of consumption with the case of BBI Centar, a shopping centre located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper attaches great importance to long-term analysis and retraces the evolution of this place from the construction of the first mall in 1974 to the construction of the current one in 2009. This manuscript’s aim is to discuss the notion of post-socialism through consumption, focusing on the place of private actors in the socialist and post-socialist cities and on the relationship between private investors and public authorities in a context of privatisation
Highlights
Sarajevo is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the country declared its independence from Yugoslavia in April 1992
This article addresses the evolution of business forms in different consumer societies, the difference between public and private management of consumption and the debates around the construction of commercial areas through different periods
Some of the commercial developments Sarajevo experienced in the last 70 years were displayed. Their accumulation allows us to generate a dynamic evolution of this city under the prism of consumption
Summary
Sarajevo is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the country declared its independence from Yugoslavia in April 1992. This shopping centre includes a large public square and is in a situation of semi-continuity with the socialist period as it is located on the same site as a Sarajka, a department store built in 1974, bombed during the siege of the city and destroyed in 2006 The study of this place will allow me to attach great importance to long-term analysis and retrace the evolution of this place from the construction of the first mall in the 1970s to the construction of the current one in the late 2000s and to highlight a territorial organisation and its evolution through the use of this commercial space.
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