ABSTRACT
Medieval urban planning in Croatia was regularly connected with the enactment of statutes in which the codification of customary law was associated with the establishment of a large number of regulations designed to encompass new developments in economic and socio-political life. The oldest examples of medieval urban planning in Croatia can be found in the south with the largest number of planned towns being built in the territory of the republic of Dubrovnik. In the medieval urban structure of Dubrovnik, which was the result of its long-term development from late Antiquity, some completely different models of urban building can clearly be defined by the thirteenth century, amongst which those that were planned take a special place. The prescribed plan of the streets and the specific nature of the blocks are easily recognized in those parts of Dubrovnik that were regulated by the statute of 1272.
