Cultural heritage issues within the Serbian planning system

Abstract

Although many critical observations could be addressed to Serbian planning practice, it would be unjust to say that cultural heritage is excluded form the planning process, just on the contrary - planning in Serbia is not possible without taking into account a cultural dimension of a territory on which a planning activity is taking place. If there is an international influence on this approach, then it should be rather found in the Serbian school of planning than in convention-type obligations. However, European documents, such as European Spatial Development Perspective and Guiding Principles for Sustainable Spatial Development of the European Continent will, together with their cultural component, certainly become a framework for future national planning documents and policies.

Bez obzira na činjenicu što se na praksu prostornog planiranja u Srbiji mogu uputiti mnoge zamerke, bilo bi nepravedno reći da je problematika zaštite kulturnog nasleđa u njoj zanemarena – nasuprot, planiranje u Srbiji nije moguće bez razmatranja kulturne dimenzije prostora za koji se radi plan. Ukoliko se uopšte može govoriti o međunarodnom aspektu ove problematike, ona je više prisutna u školama planiranja nego u pozitivnim zakonskim propisima. Ipak, perspektive prostornog razvoja Evrope zajedno sa vodećim principima održivog razvoja Evropskog kontinenta biće nesumnjivo, sa svojom kulturnom komponentom, okvir za izradu planskih dokumenata i politika na nacionalnom nivou u budućnosti.