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What Happened to Urban Planning, Application of Urban Criteria in the Littoral Zone

The analysis of the present state both on the market and in profession definitely demonstrates that the basic urban criteria have been significantly deformed as opposed to their scientific grounds and application acceptable in practice. Considering urban planning as a way of balancing between several factors: possibilities/limitations provided by the area observed, demands and intentions of the potential investors, co-ordinance with the plans of higher range, legislative framework and forming a certain level of sustainable development of the wider area, it is a question merely of the single factor's ratio i.e. consistency of criteria arranged and determined in advance to obtain a quality plan. Existing legislative framework which should provide legitimacy for the consistency of the criteria, and which revealed not to be structured properly when applied in practice, and the fact that there is no universal methodology to create physical planning documentation, generate even worse conditions in a certain area, not possible to rehabilitate by using a non-selective legalization. The most visible indicator of deteriorating conditions in a certain area caused by changing/non-existing criteria is the littoral zone where the problems and the consequences of their non-solving are the most visible due to the high pressure and also unfavourable configuration of the terrain. This automatically results in higher expenses during the realization of the infrastructure planned and also in non discerned short-term, middle-term and long-term planning. One of the examples is construction in Dubrovnik. In the area of Lapad/Babin kuk (Glavica), north of Cardinal Stepinac Street, it was conducted according to a plan and the construction in the area of Nuncijata was unplanned. It is symptomatic that there are no differences, whether you look at the orthophoto or you try to evade a car in the street in one of those areas. It all indicates that certain levels of the executive plans do not respond the demands of the market, i.e. the level of UPU (Urban plan) is too general and the level of DPU (detail urban plan) is too specific for the inevstors' demands which are mostly unknown during the creation process and development of the plan, and also for the main concept of physical planning which is a sustainable and steady development. Unfortunately, throughout the process of making and enacting the plans due to a formalistic approach and nonexistent appropriate methodology, deformation of both criteria and goals has occurred which actually means the loss of practical and scientific approach to the most important resource - space. Thus the only solution would be a thorough revision of the existing Law on physical planning and construction and its subordinate acts considering the name, the sort and the content of physical and urban plans and methodology used for their creation.

urban planning; urban criteria; littoral zone; methodology; physical planning

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