PREOBRAZBA GRADSKIH UTVRDA U JAVNE PROSTORE URBANE DRUŠTVENOSTI
The Transformation of City Fortifications into Urban Public Spaces

Summary/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.

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