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Urban Agglomeration Zagreb - Future Capital A space?

The Regional development planning framework in Croatia has emerged over the last ten years. As part of Croatia’s European Union integration process, there was a strong external pressure to adapt national institutional arrangements and regional development related policies in accordance with modern planning principles and practices. Croatia is divided into 21 counties, whereby the Capital City of Zagreb with its almost 800 thousand inhabitants has a dual status – City and County. A regulatory novelty was introduced due to EU membership and structural funds eligibility, where four cities (including Zagreb) have to elaborate urban agglomeration strategies. The City of Zagreb, due to its specific dual status, prepares a County development strategy and needs to prepare an urban agglomeration strategy (UAS). The main research question refers to how to define the urban agglomeration area, and which criteria should apply. The methodology proposed by the Ministry provides a basic approach that should be followed and a few common principles that in defining the area should be applied. Urban agglomeration area and the County territory, naturally overlap, however not entirely. Here the author explores possibilities to identify and further accommodate strategic capital A projects that will be incorporated in both documents, i.e. with a relevance to Zagreb County and Urban Agglomeration Zagreb. In questioning the planning hierarchy, a subtle exercise on how to plan and govern an urban agglomeration and future metropolitan region will be examined. Combination of above mentioned factors asks for a tailor-made planning approach to design of the urban agglomeration strategy, including strategic capital A projects, as a unique Croatian example.

urban agglomeration; Zagreb; strategic projects

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