ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to connect a specific form of ritualized sociality in open city spaces with the transformations of urban cores from pre-socialist through socialist and post-socialist times, as well as to ponder the future of these connections. Placing the research subject in the region of Southeastern Europe, the chapter specifically deals with cities in Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia. It focuses on the identification, analysis, and potentials for preservation of traditional forms of ritualized behavior that occur in everyday life in the cities of Southeastern Europe. These forms of behavior are permeated by sociality, which brings closer or distances the individuals belonging to social groups that vary according to age, gender, rural-urban origin, social status, and ethnicity. They are considered through the study of the corso as an urban promenade, occupying the very central parts of old urban cores.
