Collapse of strategic thinking, research and governance in Serbia and possible role of the spatial plan of the Republic of Serbia (2010) in its renewal
Early reforms in Serbia (Yugoslavia) were announced immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From the beginning of the 1990s few attempts of the kind announced have taken place, and, altogether, they still remain more or less uncompleted. To a large extent, this is a result of...
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Institute of Architecture, Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Spatium |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-569X/2010/1450-569X1023022V.pdf |
| Summary: | Early reforms in Serbia (Yugoslavia) were announced immediately after the
fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From the beginning of the 1990s few attempts
of the kind announced have taken place, and, altogether, they still remain
more or less uncompleted. To a large extent, this is a result of choices
taken by the political and economic elites, in effect without any broader
public dialogue undertaken about the strategic directions, contents and means
for the implementation of such reforms. So far no overall societal consensus
on the key strategic issues has been reached whatsoever, and, therefore, the
choices in question have simply been imposed on the society at large by
decree. The economic recovery from 2000 onwards, while fairly dynamic, has
still been insufficient, and more or less assumes the form of “growth without
development”. Serbia still keeps one of the most dissipating and
non-sustainable economies, social services and spatial development patterns
in Europe. Its “post-socialist Argonautics” has been facing a number of
difficulties, also exacerbated by a lack of adequate institutional and
organizational adjustments, as well as by a lack of proper cognitive and
heuristic support. The spatial and environmental planning practice represents
a mixture of old habits and substandard approaches, with only some new
initiatives. There have been few attempts to redirect the improper
development path, however, which have so far either failed of been
uncompleted, mostly reflecting the collapse an overall collapse of strategic
thinking, research and governance in this country. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-569X 2217-8066 |