IFLA EUROPE YEARBOOK 2016 Re-thinking the Urban Landscape in Croatia doesn’t imply a comprehensive planning process of city regeneration. Croatia`s largest cities are Zagreb, Rijeka, Spilt and Osijek. Croatia is a beautiful country in which every region is characterised by different urban landscapes whose creation was influenced by geography, historical background, economic circumstances and tourism.
CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (HDKA)
A land of thousands of landscapes
BARBARA KLEMAR IFLA EUROPE DELEGATE
Zagreb, 790,000 inhabitants, ©Roberto Taddia
Rijeka, 128,000 inhabitants, © lukw As we cannot present projects promoting green infrastructure or innovative living solutions, we tried to give a short overview on how the process of re-thinking urban landscape is put in place through a few urban interventions/transformations which are successful and enjoyable. Croatia’s capital, the City of Zagreb, has a famous U-shaped system of city squares with parks in downtown called the Lenuci Horseshoe. In the last decade, the Eastern Parkway of the Horseshoe is regularly seasonally transformed in different ways to bust up the city’s touristic identity.
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