Ideology, political transitions, and the city the case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Main Author: Djurasovic, Aleksandra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2016
• Series: Routledge research in planning and urban design
• Subjects: City planning > History > Bosnia and Herzegovina > Mostar; Cities and towns > Case studies > Growth
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• Physical Description: xiv, 236 pages illustrations 24 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781138929890

Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions. Their cities have developed under socialism (1945 - 1992), have suffered through the civil war during the 1990s, and during the last twenty years have been undergoing a slow and multifaceted transition to an indeterminate end point. Focusing on the post-socialist, postwar, and neoliberal transitions experienced in BiH, the book shows that planning systems deviated from control-oriented and top-down regulation to flexible approaches for more open for informal development. The book analyzes several levels of planning-related processes: the former Yugoslavia, BiH, the city of Mostar, and three urban zones (the Industrial Zone Bisce Polje, the City Zone Rondo, and the Historic District and the Old Town Zone) in order to offer insights into the new planning systems in the late phase of post-socialist transition.