The issue of urban public space in age of “investor urbanism”
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Penčić, D. and Lazarevski, S.
Abstract
By reviewing the current condition of urban public space in recent decades,
the paper explains the relationship between current urban planning priorities and the
changes that are taking place in cities due to them. The research was conducted in part of
the city of Skopje, more precisely on the territory of the municipality of Centar, as the most
prominent example of the situation. Skopje from a city with a rich history of socialist
urbanism and a laboratory of progressive modernist ideas for a city, in the long transition
period loses its most pronounced quality - the wealth of open public spaces. Changing the
goals of urban planning and giving priority to economic demands, expressed through the
need to fill the budget of local self-government and the demands of investors for intensive
construction, are key in changing the attitude towards open public space, most
pronounced as a reduction in volume and quality.
the paper explains the relationship between current urban planning priorities and the
changes that are taking place in cities due to them. The research was conducted in part of
the city of Skopje, more precisely on the territory of the municipality of Centar, as the most
prominent example of the situation. Skopje from a city with a rich history of socialist
urbanism and a laboratory of progressive modernist ideas for a city, in the long transition
period loses its most pronounced quality - the wealth of open public spaces. Changing the
goals of urban planning and giving priority to economic demands, expressed through the
need to fill the budget of local self-government and the demands of investors for intensive
construction, are key in changing the attitude towards open public space, most
pronounced as a reduction in volume and quality.
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