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Cities-Laboratories of Smart Urbanism

“Cites are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. This is the laboratory in which city planning should have been learning and forming and testing its theories”, Jacobs (1961). The process of changing the city during the transition from socialism to capitalism is taking place now, for the first time in the history of urban development. Books, texts in periodicals and other literature on the subject are rare, and their authors are mainly sociologists, urban geographers, economists, and in very small numbers urban planners and architects. Great cities have their own rules. They grow at a rate which is computed by number of people increasing per hour. Little cities of a few tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people give the impression that they still can be "comprehended with an ordinary dictionary". Cities in countries of the former Yugoslavia have up to 300 000 inhabitants, with the exception of Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje and Sarajevo. That is why in this region we have to concentrate on how to teach on sustainable architecture and urbanism in small cites. „Towns, suburbs and even little cities are totally different organisms from great cities. We are in enough trouble already from trying to understand big cities in terms of behavior, and imagined behavior, of towns. To try to understand towns in terms of big cities will only compound confusion”: Jacobs (1961). Bearing in mind the above learning outside the classroom from our own good practice should be our commitment. “The way we design our streets, open spaces, public buildings and neighborhoods will give shape to urban society for a long time to come”: Gehl in Rogers and Power (2000).

small cities; good urban practice

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