Housing

Common(ing Space): Fragments of Reflection on Urban Spatial Commons

New ways of space management and use are continually emerging worldwide. They are, on one side, criticizing the mechanisms of neoliberal urbanization and their consequences, while on the other opening the wider social discussion about possible alternatives including participative approaches, social infrastructures, self-managed spaces and grassroots practices.

By Jovana Timotijević

A novel model for affordable, cooperative housing in Serbia

This brochure introduces a resident-driven approach that can help a substantial segment of the population to address these housing needs. Based on the “smarter building” approach developed by Ko Gradi Grad (Who Builds the City), a flagship building is being prepared to prove the concept.

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Modernist, utopist, yugoslav Television (TV) tower

Architecture in Yugoslavia - Creating a Concrete Utopia

An exhibition of socialist Yugoslavia’s architecture, held at the world-renowned Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York since July 15th 2018 until January 13th 2019, was the direct cause or call for us to examine our own heritage.

By Ljubica Slavković

Housing from Below: A Smarter Building Model for Affordable Housing in Serbia

Housing in Serbia is in crisis. Over the last 25 years, housing has been transferred from collective to private ownership, which has shifted responsibility for the provision of housing to the private sector. Smarter Building was initiated in 2012 by the platform Ko Gradi Grad (“Who Builds the City”) to challenge this model.

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Capetown: Politics of Crisis, Crisis of Politics

Almost every museum in Cape Town which in some way covers the period of apartheid includes among its exhibits a wooden bench with a variant of the sign “Whites Only” on it. This is no surprise, because these benches are a very vivid reminder of the brutal racial segregation which lasted in South Africa up to the mid-1990s. However, I was somewhat amazed that, in Cape Town today, there are almost no public benches, so that, if you want to sit down somewhere and have a rest in the city centre, you have to buy a coffee, a juice or a sandwich.

By Marko Aksentijević

Smarter Building

The fourth Who Builds the City edition aims to establish and offer to citizens a platform for development of knowledge and practice (of collaborative planning and investing) in the field of co-housing.

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