Urban planning and construction of Zagreb city district „Trnje“ 1945 – 1990

Autor u svome radu obrađuje i analizira povijesni i prostorni razvoj zagrebačkog naselja Trnje i njegovu transformaciju u urbaniziranu gradsku četvrt. Riječ je o naselju koje predstavlja sastavni dio grada Zagreba, no koje zbog specifičnosti svoje razvojne problematike nikada nije u potpunosti integrirano u prostor grada. Prvi dio rada bavi se povijesnim razvojem naselja, utjecajem industrijalizacije na njegovu modernizaciju te početkom obnove i izgradnje Zagreba nakon Drugog svjetskog rata. Drugi dio rada bavi se poslijeratnim urbanističkim planiranjem trnjanskog prostora i njegovom izgradnjom u novo gradsko središte. Glavnina rada podijeljena je u dva dijela u kojima autor prvo obrađuje urbanističke planove i programe Trnja te i ih potom, u drugom dijelu, uspoređuje s ostvarenim rezultatima njegove dugogodišnje izgradnje. Posebna pažnja posvećuje se odnosu nove vlasti prema Trnju, koje je kao radničko naselje trebalo postati novim gradskim središtem. Taj odnos potrebno je promatrati kroz ideološku prizmu u kojoj je Komunistička partija izgradnju Trnja poistovjećivala s izgradnjom novog društva i poretka. Rad, stoga, predstavlja analizu društveno-političkih odnosa i njihovog utjecaja na arhitekturu i urbanizam grada Zagreba u razdoblju od završetka Drugog svjetskog rata pa sve do raspada SFRJ.In his thesis, author elaborates and analyzes historical and urban development of Zagreb city district „Trnje“ and its transformation into urban city area. The district represents an integral part of the city of Zagreb, but it was never fully integrated into the urban area due to its specific development issues. First part of the thesis deals with historical development of the district, impact of industrialization on its modernization and the beginning of reconstruction of Zagreb after World War II. Second part of the thesis deals with postwar urban planning of Trnje area and its construction into a new city center. The main body of the thesis is divided in two parts: first, in which the author elaborates on urban plans and programs of Trnje, which he then compares with achieved results of its longstanding construction in the second part of the thesis. Special attention is drawn to the relationship between the new government and Trnje which, as a worker's settlement, was supposed to become a new city center. This relationship needs to be observed through ideological prism in which the Communist Party identified the construction of Trnje with the construction of a new society and order. Therefore, this thesis represents the analysis of socio-political relations and its impact on architecture and urbanism of the city of Zagreb in the period from the end of World War II all the way to the dissolution of SFRY