Biljana Arandelovic, Milena Vukmirovic

Belgrade (eBook, PDF)

The 21st Century Metropolis of Southeast Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first, entitled The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history, introduces the reader to the city, and is followed by a chapter on Belgrade's urban plans through history. The book continues with a chapter on one of the major urban projects in the former Yugoslavia, the construction of New Belgrade, its development and results, entitled New Belgrade: from no man's land to modern city. In turn, the following three chapters explore three dominant contemporary topics: Belgrade's riverfront redevelopment; Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala; and Sustainable Belgrade. Expansion of the pedestrian zone in the city center. The book draws to a close with a chapter on Future predictions: South-Eastern European metropolis of the 21^st century. This chapter in particular discusses large city projects and includes predictions about the city's future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030350703
• Artikelnr.: 58474287

Autorenporträt

Dr Biljana Arandelovic is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture and a visual artist. She holds a PhD in Technical Science in architecture from TU Graz (2008) and was a Postdoc Research Fellow at UdK Berlin at the Institute for History and Theory of Design (2011/2012). She was also a visiting researcher at ASK Centre for Research on Management and Economics of Arts and Culture Institutions at Bocconi University (2016). Arandelovic is a researcher in the national scientific project The optimization of architectural and urban planning and design in the sustainable development in Serbia.

The main focus in Arandelovic's research is the theory of contemporary cities and Art in Public Space. Since 2009, she has been teaching Contemporary Architecture, Art and architecture and Serbian Architecture in the 20th century at NiS University. She has taught at the Faculty of Applied Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade (2017), atthe Department of Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology (2012) (Auckland, New Zealand) and at the Art and the City summer schools in Vienna and Graz (2013/2015) where was also a program director.

Arandelovic is the author of the two books: Public Art and Urban Memorials in Berlin (Springer) and Visual Impressions: Architecture and Public Art in Graz (Leykam). Since 2005 she has worked as a visual artist, and was represented by Marion Fischer art moments Gallery (2005/2011), where she had solo exhibitions in Graz. Arandelovic uses photography as an addition to her primary practice of painting. Additionally, her work embraces urban photography in parallel with her research of contemporary cities.

Dr Milena Vukmirovic is Assistant Professor in the Planning and Design department within the Department of Landscape architecture at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade. Milena is also a Research Associate at Urban Laboratory in Belgrade. From 2015 to2019 she was an adviser to the Director of Urban Planning of the City of Belgrade in the domain of public space design. Her research is focused on the relationship between the quality of public spaces and the competitiveness of cities in the built and natural environment. She is founder of CSO 5km/h, which aims to promote walking as a sustainable mode of transport, co-founder of the Urban Laboratory Belgrade professional association, and co-founder and executive coordinator of the International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies. She is currently engaged in the national research project Modernization of the Western Balkans and, and is an external associate in the international projects DANUrB and CLEVER city.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history.- Chapter 2. Milena Vukmirovic.- Chapter 3. The rise and fall of New Belgrade with current developments in retrospect.- Chapter 4. Belgrade's Waterfront revitalization.- Chapter 5. Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala district.- Chapter 6. Public Art in Belgrade.- Chapter 7. Pedestrian-friendly Belgrade.- Chapter 8. Belgrade's development visions and aims.