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Sociology in Spatial Planning

Ivan Lay ; Zagreb, Moše Pijade 89

Sažetak

Yugoslav efforts in trying to overcome the gap between the past and the future, in order to come up with the world progress, are followed by some inner contrasts (not understandable at the first sight). Owing to the fact that the extent of the process of urbanization in Jugoslavia is among the lowest in Europe, and on basis of the chosen self-managing social concept of the country, sociology has been given a good chance to avoid panic, to apply the most recent world knowledge and experiences in spatial planning, and to avoid mistakes. At the present moment, characterized by changes in the society, possibilities for the development of urban sociology are particularly favorable, as well as the approach on the scientific basic and real social aspirations that should be researched in the tissue of a man’s »everyday life«. Urban sociology has necessarily participated part of the inherited problems, unsolved and accumulated in the world as well as in Jugoslavia, especially after the sudden industrialization when the process of urbanization assumed character of the uncontrolled course (flood) that should be opposed to.
Besides the inherited problems, urban sociology, although rather new, has met the problematics of spatial transformation as well. Gap is the greatest here because towns are not easy to change what asks for redefinition of principal concepts on the relation man—space. Central theoretic theme is the problem concerning the relations of the contents (man and society) as the subject and the form (space) as the object of architecture in urban and spatial planning.
The inherited, one-sided approach to the creative act in projecting the object as such (19th and 20th centuries) saying »the contents should be limited and isolated turned into the form«, has impoverished the contents and separated »social totality «. That is how the fetishism of a design and its derived sub-isms (e. g. functionalism), and splitting (in a man) of the world picture, appear. When the splitting of a man's character (in 18th century) started by industrial procedure, that is by separating »a man worker from his work«, splitting of a human personality was initiated; and now, another process of automation of social »space« has been initiated, initiating thus, after the industrialization of urbanization, a new process of misunderstanding and dehumanization of a man. Functionalism is the third and last example of »ism« whose long lasting existence has brought about the conflict situation in the society. Those »isms« have not been positive phases of the whole of the great process of synthesis building »in creating our world« in which new »organic social community« (F. L. Wright) can be achieved by permeating all knowledge. The more complex »social« approach of urbanists, as those responsible for the planning of a city, to the problems of a man and space, has led to the dialogue with urban sociologists as to overcome the gap between sociology and predominating outlived and estranged designing principles of architects.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

156290

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156290

Datum izdavanja:

31.12.1975.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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