ABSTRACT
On July 26th, 1963 a severe earthquake struck Skopje, killing over one thousand people and destroying or severely damaging 75–80 per cents of the city's building stock (Nikolovski 1975). The disaster prompted a large-scale international emergency response. In 1966, the United Nations Development Program completed a unique large-scale project for assistance to the City of Skopje. This paper aims to look at and analyze the post-disaster reconstruction strategies, both long term, and short term. In order to analyze this complex process, the research will employ the actor-network theory. The goal of the research is to map out all the relevant actors and the network that was formed during the reconstruction. Because a significant amount of time has passed since the disaster the effects of the network will be evaluated both in the aftermath of the earthquake in 1963, and the long-term effects they had on the development of the city.
