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Map of Belgrade and New Belgrade. Source: Anica Dragutinovic, adapted from Bing Maps (https://www.bing.com/ maps).
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The concepts of collective management of housing and urban spaces are being revisited within the contemporary discussions about community-driven approaches and practices and, in particular, related to the revitalization of residential neighbourhoods. This research identifies the concepts of self-management and social ownership of housing in the pos...
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... Belgrade (Serbia, or, at the time of construction, Yugoslavia), one of the largest modernist post-war mass housing areas, mainly built in the 1960s and 1970s, is today Belgrade's biggest municipality, covering an area of around 4,000 ha with around 250,000 inhabitants (see Figure 1). ...
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... the urban structure and society have changed since then, although not in line with Lefebvre's thoughts. Post-modernist discourse continued to influence new constructions for some time, and recent urban practices have transformed it further (see Figure 10). The urban landscape of modernity began its metamorphosis into a business centre at the beginning of the 21st century. ...
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... El espacio público urbano de la arquitectura yugoslava sirvió como una forma de bienes comunes urbanos para su apropiación. Su posterior desaparición a través de regímenes neoliberales postsocialistas se ha producido en ciudades con relaciones de propiedad enredadas, particularmente en lo que respecta a las áreas verdes que rodean los bloques residenciales (Dragutinovic, Pottgiesser, Quist, 2022). La posterior reintroducción del capitalismo por la fuerza en los Balcanes disminuyó el sentido de logro y propiedad colectivos, y los espacios verdes abiertos que formaban parte del estrato peatonal de la ciudad pasaron a ser vistos como parcelas para edificios. ...
... Indeed, housing is a subtractable and excludable resource and often understood as an economic investment aimed at capital gain. However, if recognized as a societal resource, the management and fair distribution of housing reveals similar challenges -e.g. the threats of gentrification, disinvestment, demolition, displacement, scarcity, or lack of affordability -as other common goods (Dragutinovic et al., 2022;Gidwani & Baviskar, 2011). In this regard, it is not surprising 4 that community-based housing is widely seen as a promising movement to foster social, economic and ecological sustainability. ...
... Hence, it is difficult to find a suitable renewal and transformation investment scheme and capital investment in a short time. Much of the industrial heritage has been in disrepair for a long time, and the ageing and decay of buildings have become a common phenomenon [37]. If historical buildings dominated by steel lack daily maintenance and repair, the buildings are subject to rust, weathering, structural damage, or even collapse, which will also increase the maintenance cost of industrial heritage. ...
Along with the increase in modern industry, original facilities and cultures have disappeared progressively, leading to the disappearance of traditional values. However, from the perspective of the stewardship of industrial heritage, preservation is vital for Western Europe, where the Industrial Revolution emerged firstly, and it has leading technology in terms of the advanced stewardship of industrial heritage protection. Meanwhile, there is a large market for industrial heritage growth in China, but its stewardship began later. Horizontal and vertical research into the stewardship of the industrial heritage of these two regions offers a review of the developed industrial regions and experiences for developing industrial regions in their future expansion. By analysing the values and dilemmas and the features of the legal, administrative, and fund guarantee systems, this paper summarizes the advanced expertise of the stewardship of industrial heritage in Western Europe and China and proposes strategies based on them.
... Schwake (2022) explores the changing terms used to define frontier settlement in the Israel-Palestine context since the 1920s, indicating the ways in which terminological changes, from "homes" to "assets" and from "pioneers" to "stakeholders," mask an inherently consistent process of frontier settlement. Rousset (2022) studies the politics of localism in German architecture and planning by examining the ideal of the "small house" (Kleinhaus) as an antidote to the substandard tenement apartment in housing debates in Germany prior to WWI. Dragutinovic et al. (2022) identify the concepts of self-management and social ownership of housing in the post-WWII period in Yugoslavia as an important legacy of Yugoslav urban planning and housing policies, emphasizing their potentiality for rearticulating the dialogue between public and private, engaging citizens in decision-making and co-creation of the urban reality. Ben-Asher Gitler (2022) explores mixed-use housing of the post-WWII period as an experiment that articulated urban hierarchies by integrating elements belonging to the different scales of the city into housing plans. ...
This thematic issue re-articulates the question of housing as an architectural and planning problem and examines how architecture can contribute to reduce the divorce between housing provision and architectural research. The articles included in the issue investigate the terminology used to designate housing as a way to question the relation between housing, architecture, and planning, and investigate and theorize the language of housing in relation to the emergence of new and varied modes of inhabiting. Built on a heterogeneous corpus of terms, the articles offer a new outlook on the current housing crisis and the role of architecture in it. The papers unpack selected housing terms via close historical inquiry of specific case studies, housing typologies, policies and codes, discourses, and schemes, and contribute to explore the social, economic, political, and design dimensions of housing by inquiring the origin, evolution, codification, and diverse usage and meanings of selected terms. This collection of terms defines a theoretical frame to recasting architecture as a crucial aspect of housing provision, reconnecting design to policy and finance, and laying the ground for envisioning the capacities of architecture in a post-neoliberal society. Specific terms, concepts, and notions are examined by the authors in relation to their understanding in the housing discourse and practice, while other terms are analyzed in relation to their multiple origins and changing meanings, when terms migrated in diverse fields (normative, political, planning, administrative, financial) or across countries, disciplines, and cultures.
