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Institution of Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb as a Tool for Sustainable Management of Spatial Development

The Republic of Croatia Regional Development Act, promulgated in January 2015, introduced a new planning and implementation framework for the regional development policy and a new spatial planning category – urban area. Urban area, according to that Act, is divided into three categories: urban agglomerations, larger and smaller urban areas. Based on that Act, the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds declared the Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb in March 2016. The Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb was established in line with larger framework of scenarios for Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and EU cohesion policy (2014–2020) and ‘Urban Agenda for Europe’ with the purpose of building stronger cities as focal points of economic development. The aim of the chapter is to elaborate criteria for spatial coverage of the Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb, to explain operational problems (statistical, political, geographical, and so on) and to discuss potentials of the Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb as a tool for management of spatial and socioeconomic development of Croatia. Spatial coverage was analysed by method of comparison and overlapping of spatial plans in the 90 years’ period starting from 1930s onwards. The result of the research will show that the idea of forming a joint territory of what we today call Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb is not new. During time it has changed its spatial coverage but the idea of forming a joint unit has always been present.

Urban Agglomeration of Zagreb ; Regional planning ; Strategic planning ; Spatial plans ; Croatia

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