Transformation of public space - Ante Starčević Square in Osijek (CROSBI ID 658010)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | sažetak izlaganja sa skupa | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Brkanić, Ivana ; Koški, Željko
engleski
Transformation of public space - Ante Starčević Square in Osijek
A city needs public squares ; they are the largest, most public rooms, that city has. And it is only these widened, swollen, public squares which can accommodate the public gathering, small crowds, festivities, bonfires, carnivals, speeches, dancing, shouting, mourning, which must have their place in the life of the city. This statement shows us the most important function of the city center: the function of gathering and interaction. Throughout the history, these activities took place at the Agora of the Greek polis, medieval towns markets and Renaissance and Baroque squares. These wide and open places often maintained their function of the central city area until the mid-20th century. In the second half of the 20th century an image of the city was changed due to the development of information and telecommunication technologies, new forms of entertainment, the spread of consumerism and the commercialization of all walks of life. Nowadays, those open, public spaces at the city center are replaced with closed, quasi-public or pseudo-public, universal facilities which are privately owned - and whose main goal is consumption. City center, especially its main square is no longer in a function of assembly of citizens instead, it remains the square only on the denotative level: through the square name. It has become a place that has little to do with its original content ; it is just a place of passage, the point where people gather to go somewhere else. The purpose of the conducted research is to investigate the role of the city center in the 21st century. In a society where consumption remains almost only form of public interaction city outskirts with its shopping malls has replaced the downtown as a place for socialization and gatherings. This trend, which exists in Western Europe and North America from the 1960s, in the southeast Europe took place at the turn of the 20th into the 21st century due to the political changes and delayed economic development. This paper shows the process of transformation of a traditional urban public center on the example of the main square of Osijek's Upper Town – Ante Starčević Square.
city center, public space, Osijek, central square
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Podaci o prilogu
23-23.
2016.
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objavljeno
978-963-429-094-0
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
12th Miklós Iványi International PhD & DLA Symposium
Iványi, Péter
Pečuh: University of Pécs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Podaci o skupu
12th Miklós Iványi International PhD & DLA Symposium
predavanje
03.11.2016-04.11.2016
Pečuh, Mađarska