Review article
Suburban Perspectives
Dušica Seferagić
; Centar za sociologiju sela, grada i prostora Instituta za društvena istraživanja Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Tomislavov trg 21/1
Abstract
Urbanization in Yugoslavia exhibits some tendencies that make the form of urbanization, characteristic for the developed capitalist societies. Suburbanization, being considered a part of the process of metropolisation, in Yugoslavia at its beginning, is expected to appear in Yugoslavia as well. Suburbanization is being defined as: an aspect of urban organization of the human life in space, with the following characteristics: emigration from town to its surroundings, dwelling as a principal function and possibility to choose whether to stay or go out of town.
Suburbanization as a phenomenon of the west world has been made possible by a number of factors: economic-technological development, social movement and social policy, as well as the valuable orientation of people towards such a type of dwelling.
There is a myth about suburbanization as a homogeneous community, but the recent researches deny that myth, and point at the complexity of structure and way of living. They show that the type of colony is not the one to determine the way of living, but on the contrary the appertainance to a certain class.
The research, carried out at the territory of Zagreb area, has take as a starting point hypothesis that suburbanization at the Zagreb is made possible as much as the previously mentioned conditions for suburbanization are being realized by our society. Valuable attitudes of the inhabitants of Zagreb, that is their suburban aspirations, have been measured. The results have shown that suburban aspirations of the interviewed are expressively approach to the phenomenon of urbanization in our country.
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156276
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Publication date:
31.12.1975.
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