Papers by Uros Radosavljevic
Second International Conference on Traffic and Transport Engineering (ICTTE), 2014
Climate change in general and recent floods in particular in Serbia urges for creative, efficient... more Climate change in general and recent floods in particular in Serbia urges for creative, efficient and effective adaptation and mitigation measures to be implemented in urban and rural areas, especially in the field of transport and urban and rural tourism development. The experience show that 'hard' measures in the field of transport are costly and take time to implement, and that they have to be followed with 'soft' measures which cover the issues of management and organization in transportation sector and raising travel awareness towards more sustainable modes of transport among citizens and decision makers. This shift calls for complex conception of new adaptive planning, governance and management approaches and instruments to sustainable urban and rural development and mobility in an integrated way that is context sensitive. This paper will present contemporary theoretical and practical European approaches in the field of sustainable urban and rural development and mobility management and their applicability in Serbia aiming to identify possible directions for improvement and use specific management instruments that might work in this context. Our methodology is based on the case study framed in the elaboration of strategic project 'Integral Plan for the Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Eastern Serbia' in Golubac, Kladovo, Majdanpek and Negotin done within the umbrella of larger GIZ project 'Municipal economic development in the Danube Region'. We argue that it is possible to work within the community, with ordinary people, households, vine producers, and with local government representatives, incrementally, tr ough site visits talking with people, participative interactive workshops and formal presentations in order to build trust, raise awareness and recommend sustainable measures and projects in the field of mobility and travel awareness for urban and rural tourism development aiming at identifying possible improvement directions in Serbian context.
This paper explores and discuses new knowledge from the comparison of European concepts on integr... more This paper explores and discuses new knowledge from the comparison of European concepts on integrated urban mobility and findings in Serbian context and its applicability in the future urban development and mobility education and practice in Serbia. The initial framework for dissemination of knowledge was found within FP6 EU funded project 'Sustainable Surface Transport' that lasted from 2006 till 2010 in which the Faculty of Architecture Belgrade University participated as one of the partners with two assistant professors -authors of this paper as coordinators of cooperation. Since then, we have developed new teaching concepts and methods on the course ''Mobility in City'' at the Faculty. In that way, we were disseminating knowledge on sustainable urban transport and mobility among students, and to public officials from local and national government. Furthermore, we have recently continued to research impacts of urban mobility and land use patterns in relation to the climate change adaptation tools within scientific project from 2011 and included those findings into the education process at the same course ''Mobility in City''. As a result of the education process we have disseminated knowledge on sustainable urban transport and mobility in Serbia trough promotion of European local transportation information system web site (ELTIS) on seminars and round tables; translated more than 120 English case studies to Serbian and four guide books; and researched and posted 14 Serbian case studies in English on mobility issues accessible on the ELTIS web site.
Sustainability, Sep 24, 2019
Medieval fortresses represent an important tangible heritage of a nation's culture and a valuable... more Medieval fortresses represent an important tangible heritage of a nation's culture and a valuable development asset for a particular destination on which its place-branding strategy for tourism could be built upon. Traditionally in Serbia, heritage protection and conservation have been mainly concentrated on the tangible aspects of cultural sites and monuments. Nevertheless, with the advent of urban heritage integration in the local sustainable development processes and place-branding strategies, a greater appreciation of the spirit of the place and its intangible components, as well as the need to adapt it to local contexts with more participatory forms of heritage planning, have started to emerge. A wide range of stakeholders brought the involvement and participation of both the local government and community members, including residents, as an indispensable element of the protection actions and broader urban development policies. The paper aims to validate the correlation between both intangible and tangible cultural heritage and its contemporary use for place branding and tourism development. In doing so, we have employed the case study method on the two fortresses on the Danube in Serbia to show the ways in which local stakeholders have mobilized their forces in cooperation with the university to use their cultural heritage assets for tourism and more extensive sustainable territorial development. We have found that despite new inclusive forms of governance, which is attracting the attention of planning and heritage practitioners in Serbia, the contemporary approach of integrative protection and the intangible aspects of cultural heritage are still not fully utilized. For this reason, in this study, we consider methods based on environmental aesthetics approaches to cultural heritage that point out the significant inclusion of immaterial intangible cultural heritage in an unbreakable bond with material tangible heritage. The most remarkable result of our research is that while a vast number of stakeholders with local knowledge and sense of the spirit of the place have been involved in the planning process, intangible aspects of the analyzed heritage cases are present in educational projects, and are only partially present if it comes to implementation. This clearly demonstrates that the focus on tangible aspects and spatial interventions of the place branding of cultural heritage is still dominant in Serbia, despite acknowledgment of the economic and social aspects of sustainability in the planning phase in educational projects.
Instrumenti urbanog menadžmenta za lokalni razvoj
Sustainable Urban Development & Concept of Mobility Management in Belgrade
Формирање модела урбаног менаџмента у реализацији стратешких пројеката
Универзитет у Београду, Jan 16, 2015
Adaptation to climate change is a challenge that all countries and cities are facing. Open space ... more Adaptation to climate change is a challenge that all countries and cities are facing. Open space is an important action area in local adaptation policies, due to vulnerability and potential response to various climate-related problems. Various practical, fragmented open space design approaches were recently introduced in different areas of climate sensitive action, but theoretical basis for adapting cities to climate change is still missing. Starting with premise that fragmented understanding of problems generates fragmented solutions we argue that an integral approach is necessary for open space design to be a useful instrument for adapting cities to climate change. We evaluate the Integral urbanism theory in relation to the complex role that open space is supposed to have in adapting cities to climate change. Qualities of hybridity, connectivity, porosity, authenticity and vulnerability of urban open space are analyzed in three cases in relation to the three strategic areas of cli...
The Ub municipality is located in the north-east end of the Podrinjsko-Kolubarski region. The tot... more The Ub municipality is located in the north-east end of the Podrinjsko-Kolubarski region. The total area of the Ub municipality is 45670 ha or 456.7 km2. The agricultural area takes 35471.55 ha or, approximately, 77.67% of the municipality’s territory. Cultivable agricultural land takes 32955.18 ha, or 71.16%, which is distinguished by relatively large amounts of arable areas, where fields and gardens take 29470.05 ha, or 89.42% of the cultivable areas, which is an indicator that the most common activity in the Ub municipality is grain cultivation (corn and wheat). Fruit-gardens and wineyards take an area of 1953.55 ha, or 4.65%. Meadows are on an area of 5.93%. Soils of the Ub municipality, according to existing data, are distinguished by unfavorable physical and mechanical characteristics, with needs for repairs by means of different types of soil reclamation techniques. Analysis of the usable structure of the agricultural lands shows that the estates are small, and the average ar...
In this paper Bojnik municipality is situated in Jablanički county on south of Serbia, on the bas... more In this paper Bojnik municipality is situated in Jablanički county on south of Serbia, on the base of mountain Radan, in confluence of Pusta river in southwestern part of Leskovac depression. The most important soil types (the biggest area) are different subtypes of Eutric Cambisol on the lake sediments. There are upland Dark Soil on northeastern territory of municipality, but on western mountainous part are dominant Brown podzolic soil type. Soil properties and degradation process are conclusively influenced on status, utilization and protection of agricultural soils on Bojnik municipality. There are five directions of soil utilization on territory of Bojnik municipality: 1. Utilization with dominance of agricultural land and forest participation 2. Predominantly agricultural way of land utilization with greater forest participation 3. Utilization of forest with greater participation of agricultural land 4. Equal participation of agricultural land and woodland 5. Equal participatio...
For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population is living in ci... more For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's population is living in cities, with every third citizen living in heavily populated urban informal settlements. In the next 50 years, more than 3 billion people, or approximately two-thirds of the future urban population, could be living in slums. What will transport in urban environments look like in the future? Decades ago, people imagined modern metropolises as cities in science fiction movies, with flying cars and buildings above the ground. In reality, futuristic urban transport pod car systems are likely to be succeeded by rickshaws and bicycles. While society aspires to start living in ultramodern cities of the new millennium, alternative transportation systems that are appearing in overcrowded metropolises around the world are bringing a taste of reality. Urban transport planners have started to resolve this topic, considering alternative transportation systems in urban environments. Slums are not only a...
Sustainability, 2021
The growing perception of heritage as a public commodity encourages rural communities to recogniz... more The growing perception of heritage as a public commodity encourages rural communities to recognize their natural and cultural heritage as a potential for tourism development. This creates the need for an appropriate presentation of heritage sites that ensures that their cultural and natural assets are appreciated and protected. “Negotinske pivnice” are cultural heritage sites in Serbia, nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List. They are architectural complexes of wine cellars in rural region with a long tradition in wine production and industry and are unique in terms of their settlement structure. This emphasizes the spatial dimension of their interpretation and presentation, and highlights the importance of urban design for their sustainable use for tourism. Based on understanding urban design both as a process and a product, and cultural heritage site as a place, we argue that participatory urban design contributes to appropriate heritage presentation by widening design knowl...
Sustainability, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of strategic planning as a sustainable tool for... more The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of strategic planning as a sustainable tool for regulating both the protection and development of historic urban landscapes, as well as developing an adequate and effective strategic model and management instruments for implementation. The role and importance of strategic planning are examined in the context of global transformative actions in the urban governance of community and private sector engagement and sustainable development on the local level. We argue that a specific—tailor-made—integrated strategic urban planning approach could be a useful model, both for development and urban regeneration and for the preservation of protected valuable historic urban landscapes, thus contributing to a sustainable urban revival of wider surrounding territories including cultural, social and economic development. We stand on the position that the sustainable approach to the protection and revitalization of the historic urban landscapes has ...
European Planning Studies, 2019
The influence of place branding in urban development has more importance than ever. Nevertheless,... more The influence of place branding in urban development has more importance than ever. Nevertheless, little attention is given to how place branding strategies are interrelated with planning, especially in post-socialist urban development. The purpose of this paper is to critically explore experimental educational projects conducted through cooperation between academia and local governments in Serbia, perceived as a simulation of strategic planning and place branding. We argue that educational projects hold power to create additional value in place and contribute to place branding by using a variety of planning and design instruments as a means of transformative spatial and social change both for communities and students as future planners. This paper uses theoretical exploration to develop reflective structural elements and a set of criteria essential to interlink strategic planning and place branding, thus providing a unique apparatus for the evaluation of educational projects. By emphasizing the possibilities and limitations of educational projects, the paper contributes to the theoretical advancement of place branding and strategic planning interlink and sheds light on the effects that those projects may have on spatial development and governance of the territory.
Sustainability, 2019
Collaborative strategic decision making has to be widely informed, communicated and knowledge-bas... more Collaborative strategic decision making has to be widely informed, communicated and knowledge-based in order to innovate transformations toward local and global sustainability. It is unimaginable that this process could be effective without computer-aided information support, but the research indicates the utilization constraints within human capacities to recognize their usability and usefulness. These constraints seem to be even more challenging within the intensively transitional social contexts, such as Serbia. We argue that understanding the relationships between sustainability, governance, and planning in a specific social context has profound importance to gain usefulness of information support and to ensure its increasing utilization. Identifying the practical path of information support modeling requires an operational framework that encompasses innovative and socially valid initiatives. Therefore, an integral theory framework was chosen to comprehend all social influences ...
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2015
Urban regeneration and economic development in the context of competitive global markets and impa... more Urban regeneration and economic development in the context of competitive global markets and impacts to Serbian cities represent challenges calling for new responses for transformative action in urban governance. Policy-makers understanding of that relation may contribute to suitable use of policy instruments for creating good business environment in cites. Business improvement districts (BIDs) represent possible model used as a management instrument for fostering local economic development, city promotion and improving the quality of urban public space and life. The paper presents theoretical approaches of policy instruments use and sets recommendations for management of BIDs based on two cases of city center?s regeneration in Serbia. We argue that for BIDs to be a useful model for city center?s regeneration, an appropriate use and combination of regulatory, economic and informational management instruments is necessary.
Spatium, 2008
This paper is primarily based on the research on existing waterfront development that occurred in... more This paper is primarily based on the research on existing waterfront development that occurred in last few decades of the XX century in Western Europe with potentials for waterfront development in the changed and transitional context that Serbia and Belgrade is going through: from centrally driven system to market oriented economy with the multi stakeholder arena in the processes of globalization - urban management and development paradigms change. The aim of the paper is to define and underline conditions influencing waterfront development (WFD); to examine who the urban actors are that trigger WFD and what strategies have been created by them for WFD as a response to those conditions. Conclusions will be drawn at the end from the Western European context that might be applicable for developing WFD strategy in Belgrade. .
1 ABSTRACT The broad problem that will be elaboarated in the research is efficiency and effectivn... more 1 ABSTRACT The broad problem that will be elaboarated in the research is efficiency and effectivnes of traditional approach in Urban planning, currently still present in Serbia. Urban planning in Serbia is chaleneged by transitional trends such as decentralization, participation, colaboration and buildnig partnerships to tacle spatial problems in relation with new socio-economic space. The main problem elaborated in the paper lack of common understending for the need of building patrneships among institutions and local communities to tacle spatial problems. Therefore, research questions arising from the problem framework are: How to build partnerships, collaboration and social capital in the closed spaces within local communities such as Local Authorities, Public Companies, Civil society? Can Territorial information system be an instrument for building social capital? If it is so, how it can break barriers and build trust and collaboration? The hypotesis relevant to the problem is t...
Arrangement, exploitation and protection of UB municipality's agricultural land
Poljoprivredna …, 2007
The Ub municipality is located in the north-east end of the Podrinjsko-Kolubarski region. The tot... more The Ub municipality is located in the north-east end of the Podrinjsko-Kolubarski region. The total area of the Ub municipality is 45670 ha or 456.7 km2. The agricultural area takes 35471.55 ha or, approximately, 77.67% of the municipality's territory. Cultivable ...
Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2015
Entrepreneurial urban governments around the world use large-scale projects for promoting cities ... more Entrepreneurial urban governments around the world use large-scale projects for promoting cities as a place for enhanced quality of life and attracting investment from an international level. However, large urban projects frequently challenge democratic planning and public interest, and break up conventional city planning models. We argue that the changed city government?s entrepreneurial role calls for reframing the public interest, taking into consideration both global private interests and sustainable impacts and benefits for varieties of local public interests. The paper presents the case of Belgrade Waterfront Project. Results show an efficient entrepreneurial direction of the Serbian national government, contrary to the worldwide experiences where urban governments take the lead. Still, it is questionable whether the outcomes will be just and fair, especially when it comes to "winners" and "losers". We place equity at the top of agenda for public officials ...
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