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Beginning with the ideological premise that a flat, a place to live, was a basic human right, the socialist state assumed the obligation of securing this particular right for its citizens. Therefore, in the midst of the post-war housing crisis, Yugoslavia (of which Croatia was one of the constituent republics) introduced the so-called 'socially organized strategies of housing construction.' The financial aspect of these strategies, often defined through the syntagm 'state-financed' or 'publicly-financed,' consiste...

After decades of well-developed public housing programs in the Yugoslav socialist state, the socio-political shift of the 1990s introduced new challenges into the housing domain: privatization, ownership redistribution, and market liberalization. These processes were accompanied by deindustrialization as well as economic and refugee migrations, which caused a new housing crisis. The withdrawal of the state from housing investment on the one hand, and the instrument of the ‘detailed urban plan’ on the other, led to...

The research examines the success of implementation of theoretical basis of modern urban typologies in Split, particularly of the thesis that new social environments can achieve spatial and sensorial characteristics similar to those in the town's historic core. The research approaches street as a paradigm of public space in the context of the new city area from 1970s, the so-called Split 3, as well as in the context of the historic core. Insight into the urbanistic plans of Split 3 and both theoretical and practic...

This paper examines the role of architects in the society of socialist Croatia between 1955 and 1965, a time marked by a major housing shortage, when the demands of the society represented within the new state housing strategies often meant that the architects had to abandon certain autonomous tools and values of their profession. In that particular period, the dictate of implementing rationalization principles into housing construction dictated architectural discourse to change, and its social position to redefin...