Divna Pencic &Jasna Stefanovska & Biljana Spirkoska
The transition from one organisational system to another fundamentally alternates the context in which the planning operates while leaving an undeniable mark on cities and their urban tissues. Parallel to the processes of transition from one system to another following the collapse of the socialist state there was a long and painful recession that affected the planning profession that had to operate in a context that was in making. The governments aimed at projects that are market driven and tried to initiate investments that did not necessarily protect the public interest. While promoting such projects beating primarily with the pulse of the capital, a fragmentation of the tissue of the cities was inevitable, the public space was ignored and the position of the planner was undermined.
The processes of urban change and restructuring had different dynamics and pace while remodelling the city and had a direct impact on the societal changes in the country. The public spaces and public life in the city of Skopje as a result of such processes are slowly disappearing and the newly proposed ones represent more of a left-over spaces designed to connect rather than to provoke interaction. Such spaces do not contribute nor enhance city’s qualities, but are empty and unarticulated spaces emerging in the in-between realm producing permanent strangeness questing for an immediate rethinking and action.
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