Preliminary communication

The Transformation of City Fortifications into Urban Public Spaces

Damir KRAJNIK ; Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb
Mladen OBAD ŠĆITAROCI ; Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb
Krunoslav ŠMIT ; Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb

Abstract

Disintegration and transformation of bastion-type
fortifications in European and Croatian towns resulted in
some of the most significant examples of urban interventions
of the 19th century. One of the most important roles of these
interventions was to create new urban areas with a
concentration of public spaces and public buildings as places
of social interaction. The creation of spaces of socialization
in the context of bastion-type fortifications' conversion was
planned and carried out in the majority of towns regardless
of their size or urban centrality which strongly implicates the
existence of a unique urban planning model in the late 19th
and early 20th century. The context of urban transformation
of Zagreb and other Croatian cities, as well as of a number
of cities in Europe and in the rest of the world, of which we
have been witnesses in the last decade, shows the necessity
of analyzing such processes, especially having in mind the
strong pressure of private capital on the processes of urban
development with a tendency to neglect or completely
abandon public spaces as places of social interaction.

Keywords

transformation of city fortifications; urban area of social interaction; urban planning

Hrčak ID:

25480

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25480

Publication date:

7.7.2008.

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