Socialist Urban Development in Kosovska Mitrovica – Compressed Socio-Spatial Duality in a Medium-Sized Industrial City in Yugoslavia’s Underdeveloped South
Socialist Urban Development in Kosovska Mitrovica – Compressed Socio-Spatial Duality in a Medium-Sized Industrial City in Yugoslavia’s Underdeveloped South

Summary/Abstract: This article examines spatial patterns of socialist urban transformation in Mitrovica (Kosovo) from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. During the initial phase of intensive urban development until the mid-1960s, the monopolistic position of the high-priority enterprise Trepča in financing and allocating housing in combination with the material and physical contingencies of the pre-socialist city led to compressed socio-spatial duality between the new socialist neighbourhood to the north of the Ibar River and the pre-socialist city on the south bank of the river. The reforms of 1965 strengthened the position of the municipality as the coordinator of market-regulated individual engagements in house construction.

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