An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade: A Visual Chronicle of the Milosevic Era

Urban collapse in Belgrade during the Milošević years is explored through facts, reflections, photographs, and other images, covering visual aspects of life, shopping centers, unregulated construction, and historical markers. The author provides critique and comparison to past standards.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: Central European University Press

Urban collapse in the Serbian capital during the Milošević years is explored in this substantial essay, utilizing facts, reflections, photographs, and other images to depict the transformation of Belgrade. Mileta Prodanović draws upon cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism to analyze changes to the built environment and urban landscape in the city in the 1990s. He covers a wide range of visual aspects of life, including shopping centers, unregulated construction, and "wild" modifications of buildings, new buildings that do not fit the surroundings, bad taste in home furnishings, boondoggles such as the international art center, problematic historical markers, billboards, store displays, electoral propaganda, graffiti, grave-markers and cemetery memorials, coins and paper money, calendars, beer labels, and even religious icons. All this information is provided with critique and comparison to past standards.

Weight: 474g
Dimension: 158 x 311 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789633866306