Approach to the arrangement of pedestrian areas in Zagreb

Autor istražuje pješačke zone koje se kao gradski prostori transformiraju u složenim oblikovnim, tehničkim, socijalnim, ekonomskim i drugim funkcijama prisutnim u planersko-projektantskim i upravnim zahvatima te u spontanim procesima stanovništva. Promjene u zagrebačkoj pješačkoj zoni tijekom dvadesetak godina upućuju na jačanje simboličkih potreba uređenja središnjih područja grada, utjecaje komercijalizacije, shvaćanja granica javnoga i privatnoga, obilježja urbanoga i ruralnoga itd.The author analyzes pedestrian areas, which envolve in cities through the complex interaction of aesthetic, thecnical, social, economic and otheer factors in town-plans and administrative procedures, and through spontaneous processes that take place in population. Changes in Zagreb pedestrian areas during the last twenty years indicate the increasing satisfaction of symbolic needs for the arrangement of central city areas, the influence of commercialization, changing attitudes to the boundary between the public and the private, urban and rural features, and so on