Sociology and Space, No. 10, 1965.
Review article
Some Causes of Untidiness of Villages in Vojvodina
Vojislav Đurić
Abstract
From old village has lagged behind town by the tidiness of its streets and houses and by its general hygienic and communal standard as well. However a life of peasants and natural environment of village provoke contrast images in minds of town’s dwellers. On the one hand village provoke oftenly a notion of soil, dust and untidiness and on the other hand romantic notions about village as an ideal place for spiritual peace, tranquillity and life not subjected to the chronometer. Villages in Vojvodina were till not long ago famous far and wide by their architecture, tidiness and care of their inhabitants for the cultural and aestetic sight of their villages. The author of this article tries to analyse and find out the causes of nowdavs untidiness of villages in Vojvodina.
In the first part the short history of the development of settlements in Vojvodina till todate is given. E. g. for the earliest period just before the Turkish invasion the author says: »Peasants' houses were partially underground and actually only eaves of these earthcabins were above the earthsurface. Only the high sweep of a draw-well and the smoke coming out of these earthcabins were indicators of human being’s existence«. Circumstances considerably changed in times when Vojvodina came under the Austrian rule in 18-th century. New villages were being built and new settlers coming from the Middle Europe strongly influenced the regulation of their living space. In the second part some causes of todate untidiness of villages were given, and in the third part the basic factors upon which depend the anew embelishment
and arrangement of villages in this region.
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118319
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Publication date:
23.12.1965.
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