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Milan Popadic
University in Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy

The Introduction to Urban Heritage of Novi Pazar of the Socialistic
Period

Summary: Novi Pazar experienced a significant urban transformation in
the period of Yugoslav socialistic system (1945–1991). Thus, it shared the destiny
of numerous cities within the socialistic Yugoslavia. Connected with the future
visions, being a subject of present and the experiences of the past, there was a special
union of construction factors and we can name it the urban heritage of the socialistic
period. Novi Pazar entered the socialistic period with a five century urban tradition.
The transformation that happened for a little less than five centuries, changed a
lot the heritage urban matrix, and also determined directions and limitations of the
future town’s development. After the beginning assignments in “reconstruction and
construction” of the town, urban planned arrangement of Novi Pazar started in 1954,
by suggesting an idea solution of the General Urban Town’s Plan, whose author was
an urban-engineer Josef Kortus. The General Urban Town’s Plan of Novi Pazar was
adopted in 1956 and it would mark the first planned phase in modernisation of the
urban structure of Novi Pazar. It is not only the matter of “socialistic ideology”,
as a driving force of these changes. It is, before all, on global modernisation of
cities after World War II, but the global modernistic trend in Yugoslavia, and thus
in Novi Pazar, received a socialistic character. The features of the character were
very special, since besides Yugoslav self-government model, Novi Pazar brought
local colours and inexhaustible vividness. Finally, the concrete structures, but urban
visions that socialistic period left into the heritage, would be a visible layer for a
long within the manuscript of Novi Pazar identity.

Key words: Novi Pazar, urbanism, Architecture, socialistic heritage,
modernity, 20th century