TRAGANJE ZA IDENTITETOM PORTO MONTENEGRA, RASPRODAJA JAVNIH PROSTORA
SEARCHING FOR THE IDENTITY OF PORTO MONTENEGRO, SALE OF PUBLIC SPACES

Summary/Abstract: Public spaces of a town are significant elements of urban structure, places of everyday communication among all users of the urban space, but also spaces for creation of the town’s cultural identity. The existing Montenegrin social context, affected by transition processes in the post-socialist phase, creates a field of specific interaction among social actors. The spaces undergo significant transformations, in physical, social and identity sense. Public spaces, in these processes, become a particularly sensitive category. Abandoned industrial or military locations on the Montenegrin coastline become locations for construction of "artificial structures" which influenced by foreign capital become oases of elite tourism. High attractiveness and exclusivity of the space oppose the locality’s main identity features, and thus, spaces tailored by requests of foreign investors – new elite, are created. Towns start losing recognizable silhouettes, while urban identity and even town’s cultural identity get transformed. Transformation of Tivat Military Arsenal into nautical – tourist village and marina "Porto Montenegro" triggered big changes in urban structure of Tivat’s coastline, but also numerous social, economic and demographic changes. The objective of this paper is to determine how these changes affect open public space of Tivat.

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