Integrated Urban Planning: An Example of the Historic Centre of the City of Zagreb

Veselic Bruvo, Jadranka and Meštrović, Mirna (2025) Integrated Urban Planning: An Example of the Historic Centre of the City of Zagreb. URBAN INNOVATION: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO CITIES HAVE GONE BEFORE. Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2025, 30th Intl. Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 621-632. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

The processes of transformation of the spatial and functional structure of city centers are driven by global demographic, social, technological, economic, cultural, political, and environmental changes, especially natural disasters whose intensity of reflection on the city depends on the interaction with the character and specifics of local conditions. Faced with the increasingly intense development and resilient challenges of cities, traditional sectoral spatial planning, which is focused on location, intensity, form and balanced growth, is transforming its (over)regulated bureaucratic approach towards a strategic development approach, which offers a more coordinated and coherent spatial logic and the integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions of urban programming, planning and implementation. Traditional urban plans are becoming increasingly inefficient because they cannot be a timely guide through urban transformation processes. Encouraged by the consequences of the 2020 earthquake, the City of Zagreb has implemented a new urban paradigm that ensures the possibility of transformation through the harmonization of different disciplines, as opposed to traditional urban planning – a static image of the physical dimension of space, and the City of Zagreb has started programming a comprehensive renovation of the Historical unit of the city of Zagreb, which proposes a strategic, process-based approach to creating urban space (“place-making”) that enables dynamic transformation possibilities to anticipate possible challenges, threats and opportunities with a pro-active planning system and thus (strategically) plan future development, and/or reconstruction (ex-ante), instead of responding to unexpected events (ex-post) with a reactive planning system. With the method of thematic modeling of the space of the center of the city of Zagreb and interdisciplinary programming of spatial values, limitations and sustainable urban potentials, a new platform was created – urban planning agenda – principles, as well as recommendations and guidelines that aim to achieve the development goals of comprehensive urban renewal, as well as the preconditions for their realization. By parallel management of multisectoral processes through the proposed participatory platform consisting of all active participants in the City planning process, a comprehensive pattern/model has been generated according to which integrated urban renewal activities are carried out following the most advanced European policies. This paper provides a framework for a sustainable way of use, conditions for the use, and protection of space and management. It is an expert basis for the development of a new generation of spatial planning documents, especially the urban and conservation plan of the Historic Urban Core of the City of Zagreb, which will unite urban and conservation guidelines and be the initiator of urban changes in the center of the historic city, directed towards the Green Center 2050.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	integrated urban planning, historic center, interdisciplinary programming, comprehensive urban renewal, urban and conservation plan
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	20 May 2025 08:57
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 08:57
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1186

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