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Back to the Future: What kind of urban visions shape the city of Zagreb?

The 1990s brought out new states to the world map after the dissolution of Yugoslavia and previous socialist republic capitals became new national state capitals. The bulk of literature within post-Yugoslav (and post-socialist) field has grown around past and memory, while the new national and urban future has been less explicitly in the focus of research. In this paper, the material on Zagreb past and current visions of future will be presented in order to trace the idea of its urban futures. It will refer to socialist master plans and strategies, and official visions and branding of the city within the last two decades as well as to ideas of Zagreb development that are debated within actual 2021 election campaign for city mayor. The analysis will endue post-Yugoslav research with Futures Anthropology concepts reflecting on relational temporalities (past- present-future) and will discuss the post-Yugoslav as research framework for the futures of cities in the region. The paper is part of the project Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times (www.citymaking.eu).

Zagreb ; urban development ; strategy

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