Steps of the City: New new Zagreb
With the project "Steps of the City" a new phase in our urbanological studies has commenced. By introducing the theoretical intersection of double onthology of the relationship between the cinematic and the city, last year we produced the first (small, but still first) theoretical reader in Croatian within that field.
Through the project “Steps of the City: NEW NEW ZAGREB” our focus remains on the City of Vukovar Street. We will compare, to use Lefebvre's terms, “lived experience” with only partially carried out concept of the centre of Zagreb. Simultaneously, we are expanding the focus to the residential part of the city, which is still, 65 years after its emergence, called New Zagreb, as well as to the negative consequence of the modernist zoning – today still isolated (post)industrial zone Žitnjak in whose heart we find the Arts organization Ateliers Žitnjak. What has happened with the art community since the period of socialist modernism, starting from the artists' ateliers in the centre of the city to their planning in new parts of the city during the 1950s and 1960s, to nowadays marginalization of the artistic community in the industrial zone, is one of the main questions that the project tackles, while the heritage protection is demanded for the urban concept of City of Vukovar Street and New Zagreb.
Urbanology
new zagreb (Croatian TV archives)
Čavlović, Melita; Lovrenčić, Lana; Sevšek, Antun: Dvije "polovice" Novog Zagreba