[{"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The concepts of collective management of housing and urban spaces are being revisited within the contemporary discussions about community-driven approaches and practices and, in particular, related to the revitalization of residential neighbourhoods. This research identifies the concepts of self-management and social ownership of housing in the post-World War II period in Yugoslavia as an important legacy of Yugoslav urban planning and housing policies. Although they were subsequently neglected, these concepts can contribute to contemporary global discussions about housing affordability and the role of community in ensuring spatial and social equality. New Belgrade mass housing blocks—the main site for testing the new dwelling concepts, in terms of both policies and modernist design—are the object of this research. The article is mainly a theoretical analysis of the issues of common interest and engagement, common good, and common spaces which played a decisive role in its design. The study applies interpretative and correlational research methods in re-theorizing these concepts and their underlying narratives. It traces how the perspectives on the collective practices and spaces evolved over time, revealing a correlation between changed social practices and the spatial deterioration of the New Belgrade mass housing blocks. The study highlights the importance of both collective practices and common spaces for addressing housing issues, emphasizing their instrumentality, and potentiality for rearticulating the dialogue between public and private, engaging citizens in interactive and inclusive decision-making and co-creation of the urban reality."}],"page":"267-279","keyword":["common spaces","community","dwelling concepts","New Belgrade","post-war housing","self-management","urban commons"],"status":"public","year":"2022","user_id":"83781","department":[{"_id":"DEP1000"},{"_id":"DEP1055"}],"doi":"10.17645/up.v7i1.4746","date_updated":"2025-06-26T13:29:32Z","external_id":{"isi":["000782643600007"]},"quality_controlled":"1","issue":"1","publisher":"Cogitatio","type":"scientific_journal_article","oa":"1","_id":"7470","publication":"Urban Planning","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/4746"}],"title":"Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today","citation":{"ama":"Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U, Quist W. Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. <i>Urban Planning</i>. 2022;7(1):267-279. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>","van":"Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U, Quist W. Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. Urban Planning. 2022;7(1):267–79.","havard":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, W. Quist, Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today, Urban Planning. 7 (2022) 267–279.","ieee":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, and W. Quist, “Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today,” <i>Urban Planning</i>, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 267–279, 2022, doi: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>.","chicago-de":"Dragutinovic, Anica, Uta Pottgiesser und Wido Quist. 2022. Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. <i>Urban Planning</i> 7, Nr. 1: 267–279. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>, .","chicago":"Dragutinovic, Anica, Uta Pottgiesser, and Wido Quist. “Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today.” <i>Urban Planning</i> 7, no. 1 (2022): 267–79. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>.","ufg":"<b>Dragutinovic, Anica/Pottgiesser, Uta/Quist, Wido</b>: Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today, in: <i>Urban Planning</i> 7 (2022), H. 1,  S. 267–279.","apa":"Dragutinovic, A., Pottgiesser, U., &#38; Quist, W. (2022). Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. <i>Urban Planning</i>, <i>7</i>(1), 267–279. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>","mla":"Dragutinovic, Anica, et al. “Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today.” <i>Urban Planning</i>, vol. 7, no. 1, 2022, pp. 267–79, <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746\">https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4746</a>.","din1505-2-1":"<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Dragutinovic, Anica</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Pottgiesser, Uta</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Quist, Wido</span>: Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. In: <i>Urban Planning</i> Bd. 7.   Lisbon, Cogitatio (2022), Nr. 1, S. 267–279","bjps":"<b>Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U and Quist W</b> (2022) Self-Management of Housing and Urban Commons: New Belgrade and Reflections on Commons Today. <i>Urban Planning</i> <b>7</b>, 267–279.","short":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, W. Quist, Urban Planning 7 (2022) 267–279."},"place":"  Lisbon","volume":7,"publication_status":"published","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_created":"2022-04-08T13:11:47Z","intvolume":"         7","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-6962-5223","first_name":"Anica","full_name":"Dragutinovic, Anica","id":"68875","last_name":"Dragutinovic"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-8594-3168","first_name":"Uta","full_name":"Pottgiesser, Uta","last_name":"Pottgiesser","id":"27166"},{"last_name":"Quist","full_name":"Quist, Wido","first_name":"Wido"}],"isi":"1","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2183-7635"]}},{"quality_controlled":"1","date_updated":"2025-01-21T14:09:30Z","editor":[{"first_name":"Carmen","full_name":"Jordá Such, Carmen","last_name":"Jordá Such"},{"first_name":"Maite","full_name":"Palomares Figueres, Maite","last_name":"Palomares Figueres"},{"last_name":"Tostões","full_name":"Tostões, Ana","first_name":"Ana"},{"first_name":"Uta","last_name":"Pottgiesser","id":"27166","full_name":"Pottgiesser, Uta","orcid":"0000-0002-8594-3168"}],"publisher":"Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch","type":"conference","conference":{"location":"Valencia, Spain","start_date":"2022-09-06","end_date":"2022-09-09","name":"17th International Docomomo Conference"},"page":"329-337","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The paper studies local community centres (Serbian: centar mesne zajednice – CMZ) of post–war mass housing neighbourhoods in New Belgrade. Those were designed and built in 1970s as multifunctional centres with facilities and programmes complementary to the housing blocks: socio–cultural, commercial (grocery stores), daily services (post office, bank, crafts, etc.) spaces for socio–political activities and office spaces for the local community. The local community centres significantly increased quality of life of the residents, liveability and socialisation in the neighbourhoods. Furthermore, one of the main aims of these spaces was to enable actual realisation of the self–management in local communities. This paper reflects on the ideological and theoretical basis for their conceptualisation, referring to Edvard Kardelj, one of the main ideologues of self–management and originator of the local community concept in Yugoslavia. Moreover, the paper investigates: how the local community centres were planned, designed and programmed, and how they were spatially integrated in the existing residential blocks; how their organisational and governing role has been neglected over time, and their main purpose altered; and what are potentials and socio–spatial capacities for their future reuse. Reaffirmation of local community centres as utilitarian, governing and social space is recognized as key for promoting participation and collaborative governance in New Belgrade blocks, as well as for improving social connections, solidarity and sense of belonging in these neighbourhoods. As such, the local community centres could be one of the main factors of revitalisation of the blocks, increasing vitality and improving quality of life of the residents. Furthermore, the local community centres could have a major role in unlocking the potential of institutions and individuals towards new effective urban governance structures, as well as institutionalising citizens{\\textquoteright} participation and bottom-up governance as direct democracy in the city today."}],"keyword":["local community centre","neighbourhood","post-war housing","neighbourhood histories","local communities","New Belgrade"],"status":"public","department":[{"_id":"DEP1000"},{"_id":"DEP1055"}],"user_id":"83781","year":"2022","title":"Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://docomomo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/014850_ebook.pdf","open_access":"1"}],"publication_status":"published","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_created":"2022-12-04T10:15:51Z","citation":{"short":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, W. Quist, in: C. Jordá Such, M. Palomares Figueres, A. Tostões, U. Pottgiesser (Eds.), Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life, Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, 2022, pp. 329–337.","apa":"Dragutinovic, A., Pottgiesser, U., &#38; Quist, W. (2022). Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In C. Jordá Such, M. Palomares Figueres, A. Tostões, &#38; U. Pottgiesser (Eds.), <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i> (pp. 329–337). Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch.","mla":"Dragutinovic, Anica, et al. “Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ.” <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>, edited by Carmen Jordá Such et al., Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, 2022, pp. 329–37.","ufg":"<b>Dragutinovic, Anica/Pottgiesser, Uta/Quist, Wido</b>: Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ, in: <i>Jordá Such, Carmen u. a. (Hgg.)</i>: Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life, o. O. 2022,  S. 329–337.","chicago-de":"Dragutinovic, Anica, Uta Pottgiesser und Wido Quist. 2022. Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In: <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>, hg. von Carmen Jordá Such, Maite Palomares Figueres, Ana Tostões, und Uta Pottgiesser, 329–337. Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch.","havard":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, W. Quist, Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ, in: C. Jordá Such, M. Palomares Figueres, A. Tostões, U. Pottgiesser (Eds.), Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life, Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, 2022: pp. 329–337.","bjps":"<b>Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U and Quist W</b> (2022) Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In Jordá Such C et al. (eds), <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>. Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, pp. 329–337.","din1505-2-1":"<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Dragutinovic, Anica</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Pottgiesser, Uta</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Quist, Wido</span>: Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In: <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Jordá Such, C.</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Palomares Figueres, M.</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Tostões, A.</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Pottgiesser, U.</span> (Hrsg.): <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i> : Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, 2022, S. 329–337","chicago":"Dragutinovic, Anica, Uta Pottgiesser, and Wido Quist. “Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ.” In <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>, edited by Carmen Jordá Such, Maite Palomares Figueres, Ana Tostões, and Uta Pottgiesser, 329–37. Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch, 2022.","ieee":"A. Dragutinovic, U. Pottgiesser, and W. Quist, “Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ,” in <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>, Valencia, Spain, 2022, pp. 329–337.","ama":"Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U, Quist W. Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In: Jordá Such C, Palomares Figueres M, Tostões A, Pottgiesser U, eds. <i>Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life</i>. Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch; 2022:329-337.","van":"Dragutinovic A, Pottgiesser U, Quist W. Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ. In: Jordá Such C, Palomares Figueres M, Tostões A, Pottgiesser U, editors. Modern Design Social Commitment and Quality of Life. Docomomo International, tirant lo blanch; 2022. p. 329–37."},"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-84-19286-59-8"]},"author":[{"first_name":"Anica","last_name":"Dragutinovic","id":"68875","full_name":"Dragutinovic, Anica","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-5223"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-8594-3168","first_name":"Uta","last_name":"Pottgiesser","id":"27166","full_name":"Pottgiesser, Uta"},{"first_name":"Wido","full_name":"Quist, Wido","last_name":"Quist"}],"oa":"1","_id":"9193","publication":"Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life"}]