Towards the 'green city' concept: Spatio-morphological development resources of small towns in Vojvodina

• Main Authors: Simić Ivan, Mihajlov Vladimir
• Format: Article
• Language: srp
• Published: Institute of Architecture and Urban and Spatial Planning of Serbia 2016-01-01
• Series: Arhitektura i Urbanizam
• Subjects: spatial and morphological resources; sustainable urban form; the concept of green city; smaller settlements in Vojvodina
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-6055/2016/0354-60551643035S.pdf
• ISSN: 0354-6055; 2217-8074

The main idea of this paper is to highlight the spatial and morphological potential of smaller settlements in Vojvodina, for their adaptation and transformation according to the principles of sustainable urban form and the concept of 'green' city. Because of its specific combination of rural and urban characteristics, both functional and morphological, the attribute 'rurban' is assigned to these settlements in the paper, stressing the importance of this duality in terms of their ecological transformation, but also their impact on the sustainability of the entire network of settlements in Vojvodina. Spatially-morphological resources of sustainability of 'rurban' settlements were observed in several spatial levels, and their importance at the level of a regional network of settlements is examined, as well as urban matrix and the level of the building plot. All of that was done in order to analyze and apply theoretical concepts of sustainable urban form for multiple spatial level, with emphasis on regional and local. From the perspective of urbanism and architecture, the possibilities for spatial-morphological adaptation of rural settlements were explored in order to respond to the needs of the population whose life requires a more 'urban' than what the villages are offering today. .