Socialist urban development in Kosovska Mitrovica : compressed socio-spatial duality in a medium-sized industrial city in Yugoslavia’s underdeveloped South

Subtitle:Urbanistički razvoj u Kosovskoj Mitrovici u periodu socijalizma : sažeta društveno-prostorna dvojnost u industrijskom gradu srednje veličine na nerazvijenom jugu Jugoslavije

This article examines spatial patterns of socialist urban transformation in Mitrovica (Kosovo) from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. During the initial phase of intensive urban development (1957–1965), the monopolistic position of the high-priority enterprise Trepča in financing and allocating housing in combination with the material and physical contingencies of the pre-socialist city led to the concentration of urban development in the free terrains in the northern part of the city and sharp socio-occupational segregation. The market reforms of 1965 strengthened the position of the municipality as the coordinator of market-regulated individual engagements in house construction, but consolidated the particular compressed duality of the urban landscape.

Publication year:2018

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