Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci

Heritage touristscapes: a case study of the Island of Hvar

The paper examines conflicts between the ideas of heritage and tourism, and advocates sustainable approach to tourism planning in cultural landscape. The research introduces heritage urbanism as a sustainable method for enhancing the role of heritage in tourism as a local development tool, stressing that active use of cultural landscape in tourism can bring about positive response to global competitiveness and development of a tourist site, regarding its positive influence on destination recognition and heritage revitalization. A case study carried out on the Croatian Island of Hvar investigates this tension between the preservation of the existing landscape’s character and change.

Urban Landscape and Spatial Heritage: The Case of Gateway-Pathways in Zagreb, Croatia

ABSTRACT The paper examines theoretical and analytical premises for developing a systematic characterisation of spatial heritage in the urban landscape. Spatial heritage is proposed as alternative and active link between material and immaterial agencies in the formation of the cultural landscape over time. We probe the application of interdisciplinary research at the interface of spatial history, urban heritage, and space syntax studies to expand heritage definitions and understand the role of diachronic spatial elements in urban sustainability. With the use of space syntax analytical methods, we test quantitative descriptions of typological definition of ‘gateway-pathways’ in the urban landscape. The term refers to routes that historically connected peripheral settlements to the urban core of contemporary cities. The typology was developed during on-going research by the first author at the University of Zagreb as a part of Heritage Urbanism project with reference to a sample of 18 Central European cities that were formerly provincial capital cities of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This paper looks at the city of Zagreb, Croatia and assesses its historic pathway typologies via syntactical analysis using the transect method established by Bill Hillier. Results give a quantitative validation of the spatial significance of some historical urban pathways over others.

Design of Memorials - The Art of Remembering

The paper continues on-going research of memorials by putting typological identification from previous studies into the context of post-disaster and postwar place regeneration. The aim is to explore the ‘concept of manipulation’ on case studies through choreography of motion as a design tool for memorials.

Integration core and historic urban layers relation - using space syntax for city comparison

This paper explores Central European cities by combining space syntax methodology and heritage urbanism. This combination of methods is being used for PhD research about historical pathways and their transformation into urban streets. Aim is to compare the capitals: Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb and Ljubljana to determine differences between axial and segment maps. The main research questions are: 1. are there regularities between the placement of historical and syntactical integration core of the cities; 2. what is the relation between the system of historical gateway-pathways and urban cores. Results show the importance of combining usual planning methods in GIS for understanding complex and multidisciplinary topics such as urban development and spreading of cities with the possibility of application in spatial planning.

Spa Garden in Daruvar - Methods of Renewal and Reconstruction

Abstract Spa garden in Daruvar ‘Julius’s Park’ is the oldest spa garden in continental Croatia. The counts Jankovich and their successors created the garden during the 18th and 20th century. The garden resumed its nowadays form and surface in the time of count Julius Jankovich in the mid-19th century and it was named after him. The garden is protected as a cultural heritage. The garden’s renovation is seen as an urban, architectural and landscape unity and it attempts to affirm the missing and neglected parts of the garden, to provide technological and municipal space modernization and to make a pleasant urban garden ambiance with new facilities and high space arrangement qualities, contributing to the economic development of the local community.