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MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF ŠIBENIK IN THE PERIOD 1945 – 1990

Ivica Poljičak orcid.org/0000-0001-7508-5502 ; Veleučilište u Šibeniku, Šibenik, Hrvatska

Abstract

This paper discusses the urban transformation of Šibenik in the period 1945 -1990. The processes of industrialisation and urbanisation are contextualised within the period of socialism in Croatia. In this period Šibenik experienced a signifi cant urban transformation; the population increased 2.7 times and it significantly expanded. However, the urbanocentric model of development, which had elements of state policy, produced some negative effects as well: dominance of industrialisation over urbanisation, spatial expansion crisis, environmental pollution, town centre decay, suburbanisation in new city neighbourhoods, housing shortage and population decline in the hinterland of Šibenik.

Keywords

urban transformation; industrialisation; urbanisation; urbanocentric model; Šibenik

Hrčak ID:

142264

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/142264

Publication date:

23.7.2015.

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