ABSTRACT
New Belgrade is one of the biggest—if not, the biggest—of the ‘new cities’ that sprang up on the outskirts of the major urban settlements of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the Socialist period. It is however different in a number of important respects from places such as Nova Huta, the steel city that stands next door to Krakow, or Petržalka, the Bratislava district on the south side of the Danube. It was designed with a strategic political intent: to serve as the capital of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. Never really completed, it has become a fascinating landscape testimony to changing concepts and practices in urban design and urban policy over the last sixty years. Today, with its 4,100 hectares (10,000 acres), it is the easily the largest of Belgrade's sixteen districts. A city within the city, its population of about a quarter million would today make it Serbia's third largest urban settlement.
