The Building of the „Students’ City“ in New Belgrade (1949–1956) Cover Image

ИЗГРАДЊА „СТУДЕНТСКОГ ГРАДА“ НА НОВОМ БЕОГРАДУ (1949–1956)
The Building of the „Students’ City“ in New Belgrade (1949–1956)

Author(s): Dragomir Bondžić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: students; dormitories; canteens;„Students’ City“; New Belgrade;

Summary/Abstract: The authorities of the State and the University strove in several ways to solve the problem of the lack of room for lodging and feeding students of the Belgrade University coming from the province. Apart from bringing into shape old and building new dormitories and canteens, in the fi rst years after WWII, under the infl uence of the First Five Years Plan of 1947, the idea was launched to build a large students’ settlement which would house several thousand students and which would solve the problem of students’ lodgings as a whole. It was decided to realize the project in New Belgrade which was being built at that time. The building of the „Students’ City“ in the area of Tošin Bunar in New Belgrade started offi cially in spring 1949, the work being done by the workers of the company „Novi Beograd“ and students themselves. Despite ambitious plans, deadlines, hard work and enthusiasm, the building progressed slowly, with many problems and stoppages due to the lack of the skilled labor force and materials as well as due to shoddily done work. It was only in 1950 that the fi rst block was fi nished. 800 students moved into it in early 1951. Work on other sites was interrupted then, to be continued on and off throughout the fi rst half of 1950s, and to be fi nished in 1956. Although all four blocks were populated then, works at the „Students’ City“ were not completely over and they continued throughout the next years in form of repairing shoddily done work, acquisition of equipment, cultivating the space between the blocks, building of facilities for social, cultural and sport life of the inmates.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 160-175
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian