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Pustara – a specific planned industrial settlement in the Croatian rural landscape

The existing socio-economic trend of farmland abandonment currently present in European rural landscape also occurs in the territory of the Republic of Croatia. This phenomenon is highly pronounced in the Slavonia and Baranja lowland region located in the eastern part of the country, especially in a network of settlements called pustara settlements. After an analysis of planning documents and field research, the architectural and spatial characteristics of these settlements were determined. The main objective of this paper is to show the pustara settlements in relation to the traditional Slavonia and Baranja lowland villages in order to highlight the particularities that characterize these settlements. The research has shown that the pustara settlement differs from the traditional village in a few characteristics

rural landscape, pustara settlements, heritage, abandoned settlements, Croatia

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