ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how ideologically driven planning doctrine disintegrated into flexible development strategies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), due to a multifaceted transition and complexities created during the transition processes. It explains the transition processes by focusing on the historical trajectories that have taken place in BiH since 1992. The chapter underlines the politico-economic context and the trajectories that impacted the transition of planning systems in BiH and urban planning in particular, which will be analysed through the example of Mostar. The chapter shows that the trajectory of war distorted the post-socialist and neoliberal transition processes in BiH in ways different from those witnessed in other Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. The international community, under the impression that Yugoslav openness to a market economy during socialism would enable a quick and painless economic transition, overlooked the state of the BiH economy after the war.
