engleski

The City Without a Flaneur

Shopping centers are a symptom of the changes that mark the transition from modern to postmodern city whose landscape is formed by social, economic, and ideological factors characteristic of late capitalism. This study will deal with shopping centers in Zagreb - the phenomenon that set its mark on the second half of the 20th century, in Zagreb emerges as late as in the 1990s. Through the phenomenon of shopping centers, I will trace radically changed processes of deciding about urban space where the real estate market, in collusion with the interests of investors, has replaced the modernist conception of urban planning as being the outcome of academic analysis and rationally planned development. Malls are unavoidable objects in the landscape shaped by the market and the interests of private investors, which is characterized by the desire for the city to be transformed as a whole, for it to be revitalised as a source of added value. Through comparison of typology of shopping centers in the city and those located in the outskirts of town, alongside road hubs or major urban thoroughfares, and of the type of facilities that they offer, I will try to answer the following questions: Can a shopping center operate as a vital centre of a community, and what kind of social space does it create? In what ways class stratification, implosion and fragmentation of public space, carried out by the shopping centers, transform local practices of using and experiencing public space?

Shopping center ; postmodern city ; public space ; social stratification ; urban planning ; flaneur

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