Journal article
Participatory urban transformations in Savamala, Belgrade - capacities and limitations
- Cvetinovic, Marija EPFL CODEV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Maricic, Tamara ORCID Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade
- Bolay, Jean-Claude EPFL CODEV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Published in:
- Spatium. - National Library of Serbia. - 2016, no. 36, p. 15-23
English
This paper analyses the implications of participatory urban design in
Belgrade, namely of the series of recent unsolicited activities that has
contributed to setting up a specific micro environment in the neighbourhood
of Savamala. Its main aim is to promote bottom-up urban development, surpass
current profit-oriented trends, and benefit from sociospatial contradictions
as opportunities for creativity and participation. The Savamala neighbourhood
is among the most important landmarks in Belgrade. Endowed with rich
historical heritage and extraordinary spatial potential, Savamala is now a
traffic bottleneck with intense pollution, urban noise and socio-spatial
conflicts. In order to set up an engine for urban development, several
streams of participatory activities have been launched by NGOs and IOs, such
as: online campaigns and networking, informal research activities, pop-up
events and instant actions for societal progress and bottom-up economic
activities. The Actor-network theory (ANT) methodological approach
demystifies the circumstances of participation and the role of various actors
in building pathways of urban transformations in Savamala, while the
Multi-agent system (MAS) proposes the framework for tracing their behaviour
at the neighbourhood level. A complex post-socialist framework presents a
challenge for these participatory activities to provide opportunities for
urban transformations, based on social interest rather than on real estate
speculations. In the lack of official strategies and institutionalised
support, the MAS-ANT method involves estimating whether an economy of social
exchange could contribute to improving the quality of life and functionality
of urban systems.
Belgrade, namely of the series of recent unsolicited activities that has
contributed to setting up a specific micro environment in the neighbourhood
of Savamala. Its main aim is to promote bottom-up urban development, surpass
current profit-oriented trends, and benefit from sociospatial contradictions
as opportunities for creativity and participation. The Savamala neighbourhood
is among the most important landmarks in Belgrade. Endowed with rich
historical heritage and extraordinary spatial potential, Savamala is now a
traffic bottleneck with intense pollution, urban noise and socio-spatial
conflicts. In order to set up an engine for urban development, several
streams of participatory activities have been launched by NGOs and IOs, such
as: online campaigns and networking, informal research activities, pop-up
events and instant actions for societal progress and bottom-up economic
activities. The Actor-network theory (ANT) methodological approach
demystifies the circumstances of participation and the role of various actors
in building pathways of urban transformations in Savamala, while the
Multi-agent system (MAS) proposes the framework for tracing their behaviour
at the neighbourhood level. A complex post-socialist framework presents a
challenge for these participatory activities to provide opportunities for
urban transformations, based on social interest rather than on real estate
speculations. In the lack of official strategies and institutionalised
support, the MAS-ANT method involves estimating whether an economy of social
exchange could contribute to improving the quality of life and functionality
of urban systems.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.2298/spat1636015c
- ISSN 1450-569X
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/72565
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