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Archaeology & Anthropology 2018
Global Journal of Research and Review
ISSN: 2393-8854
Page 46
October 01-02, 2018
London, UK
1
st
Edition of international Conference on
Archaeology and
Anthropology
T
he change of state polity and dominant social goals, as well as
redirecting of state production from agricultural to industrial
after the Second World War, caused radical transformation of
urban life in Serbia, and generally in the former Yugoslavia. The
large migrations of the state sector working age population to
large administrative centres led to an accelerated settlement
of cities, in the first place of Belgrade, and a large deficit of
housing. These problems caused the transition to the new state
housing policy and the beginning of the new concept of housing
settlements by moving to massive construction of a large-scale
collective housing. In such political atmosphere, the ideas of
modernism were originally taken over as mandatory content of
social reform. As a key driver of social reforms were adopted
modernist principles - idealism and belief in creating a new
world. New Belgrade and peripheral city locations, outside the
framework of traditional city units, were very suitable locations in
such conditions of necessity for construction of a large number
of collective housing facilities in the conditions of uniform
standard. However, the critique of uniformity, mono-functionality
and monotony of settlements built in the spirit of modern
architecture has led to a conceptual shift in architectural and
urban practice from the unidirectional and deterministic impact
of the environment on people to a more complex interactional
concept and the recognition that the relation between people
and their physical environment is not as direct and causal as the
deterministic paradigm suggests.
arch.jelena.ristic@gmail.comVladan Djokic, Jelena Ristic Trajkovic
and
Verica Krstic
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Glob J Res Rev 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2393-8854-C1-003
Designing a new society: socialist ideology and policy of
everyday life in the large-scale settlements in Belgrade