Socialist Yugoslavia was a unique experiment with progressive social forms that were matched by specific urban development. Since the mid-1960\u2019s until the country\u2019s disintegration in the 1990\u2019s is a period of ambiguity: while according to some researchers, the market-oriented economic reforms brought a much needed opening and liberalization, according to others it marked the beginning of an end of the revolutionary demand for equality. Thus, the anti-utopianism of the consumer welfare reflected in
\nthe rise of the middle class with its recognisable habits and taste.<\/p>\n
Following a specific architectural typology, this book delves into this period which brought along social and economic changes.<\/p>\n
It focuses on the sports and shopping centre Koteks Gripe in Split and similar architectural complexes in Sarajevo, Novi Sad, and Prishtina all designed by the Sarajevo-based architect \u017divorad Jankovic and associates, gradually expanding towards broader considerations of the architectural practice, contention and coalescence within the Yugoslav modernist project.<\/p>\n
Publishers: loose associations, Onomatopee 152
\nEditors: Nata\u0161a Bodro\u017ei\u0107, Lidija Butkovic Mi\u0107in, Sa\u0161a \u0160impraga<\/p>\n
Graphic design: Rafaela Dra\u017ei\u0107
\nLanguage: Croatian \/ English
\nPages: 488
\nISBN 978-94-93148-00-0<\/p>\n