ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The structural changes are products of the large transition process from one politico-economic system to another, which had a direct impact on the transition of spatial and planning processes. The book explains the multifaceted transition in BiH; to understand how two different politico-economic ideologies, separated by the civil war, supported urban planning processes; to isolate the trajectories that caused the shifts in planning practices. It shows that the pretransitional context of BiH, within the wider context of socialist Yugoslavia, represented a different typology of socialism compared to other CEE countries. The book explains that politico-economic transition is always faster than the transition of planning legislation and organization, decentralization of the politico-economic sphere directly impacted the decentralization of planning processes, resulting in a proliferation of spatial plans on several levels: the republican level, municipal level, urban level, neighbourhood level and so on.