Dejan Đorđević
Tijana Dabović
Bojana Poledica
Tijana Đorđević
OSVRT NA GENEZU I RAZVOJ PLANIRANJA PODUNAVLJA U SRBIJI
DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2016.4.331
UDC: 911.9:711.061(497.11Podunavlje)
Abstract: Special emphasis regarding historical context is placed on the impact of U.S. planning major basins, primarily Tennessee River, initiated by the consequences of the Great Depression in the late 1920’s. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created by U.S. Congress in May 1933. It was and it still is a pattern for planning used not only in our country but in a whole world. Pursuing the experience of regional planning in the Ruhr area at the end of 19th century (example of efforts taken by the Keiser’s Germany to get closer to or even outruns the British Empire) and inspired by a TVA as measure taken within the New Deal Germany launched itself into regional planning and large-scale public works in order to overcome consequences of the World economic crisis (1929-1933), Germany decides to replicate this theoretical model of planning under new circumstances and with expansionist goals. Naturally, the Danube area, where German expansionist, economic, social and political interests coincided with the interests of others, namely Italy, lies in the centre. The paper analyses the idea of “Large Space”, as well as organisational and institutional arrangements for its execution with special emphasis on planning in the Southeast and Danube area (economy, politics, etc). After the Second World War the number of initiatives, organizations and projects targeting the Danube River, Danube Area and Southeast Europe has shown a rapid growth. The issues covered include: valorisation of the Danube waterway and its energy potential (Belgrade convention of 1948 regarding the regime of navigation on the Danube, construction of the Rhine-Main-Danube waterway, acclamation of the PanEuropean Corridor VII, construction of the hydroelectric power plants Iron Gate 1 and Iron Gate 2...), establishment of different international bodies and working communities in the Danube area (transnational co-operation programmes (INTERREG IIC, INTERREG IIIB CADSES, SOUTH EAST EUROPE…) and their projects (Vision Planet, Planet Cense, ESTIA, DONAUHANSE, DONAUREGIONEN…), development of the EU Danube Strategy, etc. Circumstances and goals are, however, different though some parallels could be found, too. The aim of the paper is to identify and explain them as well as to integrate some lessons learned from history into contemporary spatial planning concept in Southeast Europe and Danube area.
Key words: Spatial planning, Danube river, regional development, planning history, Serbia