Regional types in Serbia and their territorial inconsistency

Abstract

Regionalization of Serbia, as an instruments whose adequate use would contribute to a decrease in interregional differences in development of certain parts, represents a complex task, which is only to some extent finished by adopting bigger territorial parts in Serbia. This work is made for the purpose of presenting the problems with regional planning process deriving from inconsistency which exists between administrative territorial organization into districts of the Republic of Serbia and functional areas of regional centers defined by The Spatial Plan of the Republic of Serbia, issued in 1996, then functional urban areas presented in The Strategy of Spatial Development of the Republic of Serbia in 2009-2013-2020 and in The Draft Law of Spatial Plan of the Republic of Serbia in 2010-2014-2021. Moreover, the work compares the above mentioned spatial areas with planned regions, for which the drawing up of regional spatial plans is scheduled, namely with statistical macroregions, whose defining is one of the recently adopted decisions in the Republic of Serbia. The aim of pointing out to the above mentioned inconsistency in so far used concepts of regionalization, is to contribute to the quality of regional planning of development, as well as to finding solutions which would refer to establishing borders of smaller, meso-regional totalities, and also to the determination of authorities of both middle levels of administration in our country. .

Regionalizacija Srbije, kao jedan od instrumenata čija bi adekvatna primena i korišćenje doprineli smanjenju međuregionanih razlika u stepenu razvijenosti, predstavlja kompleksan zadatak koji je samo donekle okončan usvajanjem većih teritorijalnih celina Srbije. Cilj rada je da ukaže na probleme u procesu regionalnog planiranja koji proističu iz izvesnih nepoklapanja koja postoje između administrativno teritorijalne podele Republike Srbije na okruge i funkcionalnih područja regionalnih centara definisanih Prostornim planom Republike Srbije iz 1996, a zatim funkcionalno urbanih područja prezentovanih u Strategiji prostornog razvoja Republike Srbije 2009-2013-2020, odnosno u Nacrtu Prostornog plana Republike Srbije 2010-2014-2021. godine. Osim toga, rad poredi pomenute prostorne celine sa planskim regionima za koje je predviđena izrada regionalnih prostornih planova, odnosno, sa statističkim makro-regionima čije definisanje predstavlja jedno od najnovijih usvojenih rešenja Republike Srbije. Ukazivanje na navedene neusklađenosti koje su postojale u do sada primenjenim konceptima regionalizacije, ima za cilj da doprinese kako kvalitetu planiranja regionalnog razvoja tako i definisanju rešenja koja će se odnositi na određivanje granica manjih, mezo-regionalnih celina, kao i na utvrđivanje nadležnosti oba srednja nivoa upravljanja u našoj zemlji. .