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Urbanscape as Landscape Emanation of East Adriatic Coast

Research is encouraged by twenty-five centuries of uninterrupted urban culture on Eastern Adriatic, a landscape of indented coast, thousand islands and mighty mountains. Urbanity emerged from the landscape (Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, 2018) - transforming the same landscape into urbanscape. The concept of urbanscape emanation is recognized in the effect that landscape has on urban development as a factor of urban continuity. The landscape is therefore identified not only as a substrata of the city but as an active participant in urban development and continuity. In contemporary urban and spatial planning of East Adriatic Coast, the landscape is regarded as an urban context, as setting, and not as an active factor of urban identity, morphology, development, and regeneration. Research objectives are to critically assess the phenomenon of the landscape as a factor of urban identity, form, and continuity, and to set the basic categorization of urbanscape morphology transformations in East Adriatic Coast cities. Research methods are based on the Heritage Urbanism approach, comprising of three main components: factors, criteria and models, and comparison of case studies. Case studies are cities of Eastern Adriatic Coast developed between the strong natural landscape of seascape and mountainscape. Those are cities of significant urbanization and development of tourism since the 1950s, which has transformed the coastal landscape of East Adriatic (Sopina and Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, 2018). Case study comparison regards urbanscape morphology through analysis of orthophoto from the 1960s and 2010s (landscape reality), and historic illustrations and contemporary photographs (landscape representation). The aim of the research is setting types and models of urbanscape morphology transformations that establish urbanscape as landscape emanation of East Adriatic Coast.

Urbanscape morphology, Heritage Urbanism, seascape, mountainscape

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