CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Buble, Tamara |
|---|---|
| Title | Power of Urban Planning: Socio-historical analysis of housing development construction Novi Jelkovec in Zagreb |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on planned neighborhood Novi Jelkovec in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. It is one of the first planned state-funded, later city-funded housing development since large housing projects of New Zagreb built by socialist government between 1960s and 1970s. Novi Jelkovec's large scale and its promoted socially oriented policy along with the facts that it was completely developed and constructed through public funding and that institutions in front of state, later city, adopted urban policies for its for determining conditions under which apartments could be purchased, resemble massive housing projects of the previous regime. However, rescaling what it seems to resemble the 1970s neighborhood unit and contextualizing it in fragmented and diverse vision of the city along with the land and home ownership are the main elements where this plan evidently refuses to be read in socialist modernist logic. This problem has not been addressed by literature neither in social sciences nor in architecture. In case of Novi Jelkovec imposing urban policies and planning vision from above reveals that processes that created neighborhood were accidental and highly dependent on economical and political circumstances such as change of party in power, international market collapse and changes in the social structure of the neighborhood. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel. Zentai, Violeta |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/buble_tamara.pdf |
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