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The parallax landscape and its middle-class spatiality: the case of the Julino Brdo housing estate, Belgrade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Aleksandar Kušić
Affiliation:
aleksandar.kusic@fsu.edu.rs
Vladan Djokić
Affiliation:
vdjokic@arh.bg.ac.rs

Extract

The housing estate of Julino Brdo was built in the late 1960s in the Čukarica municipality of Belgrade, and housed the ‘middle class’ of Yugoslav selfmanagement socialism – managers, experts, and administrators, in an area that was also populated by the improvised homes of illegal settlers. Approaching the estate from the north, the observer first notices two clusters of homogeneous masses rising out of a plateau known as ‘Grujina Strana’. As the observer moves forward, the estate briefly disappears from sight, only to reappear as a single cluster merged with the steep sides of the plateau.

Type
Urbanism
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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