ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the emergence of Belgrade Waterfront, and analyses how urban development project is being implemented, while determining the various local, national and global actors. Both global- and city-level actors are thus believed to become more and more important as influential decision- and policymakers in the 21st century. The idea of developing a large-scale mixed-use Waterfront area was first announced in 2012, when Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic took part in the elections to become the mayor of Belgrade. For that reason, Belgrade Waterfront can also be considered as a 'scale-making' project. With the change of legislation, which re-articulates the hierarchical relations between scales by allowing national rules to overrule local rules, Belgrade Waterfront is thus being indicated as a project of special and national importance. The literature survey has shown that state rescaling is often regarded as a widespread global phenomenon, while neo-liberalism is commonly understood as a main driver behind the emergence of glocal coalitions.
