Sociology and Space, No. 109-110, 1990.
Original scientific paper
Spatial planning of rural settlements in Vojvodina under circumstances of their overall decline
Ljubinko Pušić
Abstract
The fact that 399 of the 460 settlements in
Vojvodina are villages should allow us to
assume that there exists a special spatial
development plan for the whole network of
settlements. However, planning is
governed by the following conditions: (a)
the overall need for the development of
rural settlements is insufficiently defined,
(b) there is a constant process of rural
depopulation, especially in the smallest
villages, (c) the macro strategy is
undefined, (d) there is no relevant
methodology, and (e) the practice of
planning is inconsistent.
This article elaborates the circumstances
under which villages live and indicates the
basic factors of spatial planning needed to
plan their development. In other words, the
author tries to shed light on the illusion
that a formal spatial plan, i.e. an
arrangement of space (in fact, merely the
existence of this kind of documentation) is a
priori enough to ensure favourable
conditions for rural development.
The need for a complex approach to
planning the development and
arrangement of rural areas includes at
least two macrolevels: (a) regional, i.e.
external, and (b) urbanistic — within the
framework of the village territory itself.
Even if there are no systemic changes in the
sense of regional planning, it is still
necessary and possible to perform the
following adaptations in urbanistic
(rurist) planning on the level of the
settlement itself: (a) in the immediate
surroundings of the settlement in the sense
of a maximum consideration for the
natural environment, (b) the establishment
of a typological foundation that will
differentiate among the morphological
characteristics of the individual (groups
of) settlements, and (c) the redefinition of
normative urbanistic programming for the
needs of rurist planning.
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Hrčak ID:
119889
URI
Publication date:
7.12.1990.
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