Reviewed by: Measurements of the City: Maps and Plans in the Belgrade City Museum Architectural and Urban Planning Collection by Zlata Vuksanović Macura and Angelina Banković Ranka Gašić Zlata Vuksanović Macura and Angelina Banković. Mere grada. Karte i planovi iz Zbirke za arhitekturu i urbanizam Muzeja grada Beograda (Measurements of the City: Maps and Plans in the Belgrade City Museum Architectural and Urban Planning Collection). Belgrade: Muzej grada Beograda, 2018. 342 pages. ISBN 9788664330176. The most important work under the above mentioned title has recently been published by the Belgrade City Museum. It was written by two experts in the field of architecture, urban planning, and art history: Zlata Vuksanović Macura, an architect and research associate of the Geographical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and well-known author of several monographs and publications in the field of urban history and urban planning, and Angelina Banković, art historian and curator of the Belgrade City Museum Architectural and Urban Planning Collection, which is represented and analyzed in the book. Until recently, urban cartography has been a fairly neglected branch of cartography in academic studies in Serbia. Generally, the city maps have been used less than other kinds of maps. This publication—although not representing a historical atlas of Belgrade, only the holdings of a museum collection—aims at putting these kind of sources into the focus of scholarly research. The Belgrade City Museum Architectural and Urban Planning Collection was founded in 1960 for the purpose of collecting and preserving the artifacts related to the architectural and urban development of Belgrade. It contains many different collections and subcollections and is, therefore, very diverse. This book deals with only one part of these collections. Nevertheless, it is a very important one. It contains maps and plans of Belgrade created between 1865 and 1969, a total of 210 examples. The book has an elaborate structure which skillfully combines chronological and thematic approach. It helps readers to understand a complex and specialized area such as urban cartography. Its contents are divided into ten chapters, with a foreword, an appendix with a list of publications and sources, an index, and a summary in English. It begins with the presentation of the subjects and the structure of the museum collection. The founding and development of the [End Page 249] collection was discussed in the chapter entitled "The Collection of the Maps and Plans" (Kolekcija karata i planova). The other chapters differ in length and content. The first five chapters are dedicated to the presentation of maps and plans with the accompanying information on their authorship, characteristics, and historical context. A chapter which is entitled "Persons" (Lica) has the biographies of authors, designers, editors, and publishers of the above mentioned maps and plans. Another part of the book entitled "Catalogue" (Katalog) has a list of each and every map and plan with accompanying basic information. The topographic maps, city planning maps, tourist maps, and city guides are presented and described in separate parts of the book. Each of them is accompanied with information and commentaries on the historical context at the time the map was designed. The authors have made an admirable effort to identify the unknown plans, to name them and describe them accordingly. Within each part of the book, the subject is (most appropriately) chronologically approached in terms of historical events. However, the maps and plans are organized by their purpose and their inventory numbers, not in chronological order. The historical narrative within each chapter enables readers to grasp the circumstances of different but crucial moments in the history of Belgrade: the expropriation of land property for the purpose of building modern infrastructure and making the modern cadastre (which took place only in 1930s, rather late in comparison to other big European cities); the surveying of the city after the destruction of WWII; and the territorial and administrative divisions of the city in the first half of the 20th century. What follows is defining the city district, zoning the city, determining the territory of city municipalities, and merging the Belgrade city district with the municipalities of Zemun and Pančevo. The city planning maps are displayed in the chapter "A View into...