Urban Sociological Analysis of the City District of Tmje, Zagreb

Gradska četvrt Trnje jedna je od središnjih zagrebačkih četvrti, a u ovom se radu analiziraju njezini sociološki važni elementi i obilježja. Trnje se od svog nastanka razvijalo kao selo u okolici Zagreba, a potom kao periferno naselje na južnome rubu grada. Do značajnijih promjena na Trnju dolazi s prvom hrvatskom modernizacijom – na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljeće - kada sve više ljudi doseljava u Zagreb raditi u novootvorenim industrijskim pogonima. Neke od glavnih tvornica u Zagrebu djelovale su upravo na prostoru Trnja, uz željezničku prugu na rubu Donjeg grada – pa je radnike imalo najviše smisla smjestiti u neposrednu blizinu tvornica. Trnje je tako postalo radničko naselje, u kojem su uvjeti života zbog vlažnog tla, izloženosti nerijetkim poplavama neregulirane Save i uglavnom loše infrastrukture bili prilično loši. Kako je vrijeme prolazilo, Zagreb se i dalje širio, a sredinom 20-og stoljeća za Trnje se događa preokret. Javljaju se inicijative za širenje grada preko rijeke Save pa Trnje postaje centralno gradsko naselje, a uz Ulicu Grada Vukovara počinju se graditi stambene zgrade i zgrade gradskih i državnih institucija koje su i danas važne. U ovom će se radu razmotriti današnja urbana slika Trnja i analizirati ispunjava li Trnje nakon tako burne urbanosociološke prošlosti elemente kvalitetnog gradskog prostora za život.The Trnje district is one of the central districts of Zagreb and this article analyses its sociologically important elements and characteristics. Since its foundation, Trnje has developed as a village near Zagreb and then as a peripheral settlement on the southern outskirts of the city. Significant changes in Trnje came only with the first Croatian modernization – at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when more and more people immigrated to Zagreb to work in the newly opened industrial plants. Some of the most important factories in Zagreb were right in the Trnje area, next to the railway line on the outskirts of Donji grad – so it made the most sense to locate the workers in close proximity to the factory. Trnje thus became a working-class settlement where living conditions were quite poor due to the wet soil, frequent flooding of the unregulated Sava and generally poor infrastructure. Over time, Zagreb continued to grow, and in the mid-20th century, Trnje experienced a turning point. There are initiatives to expand the city beyond the Sava River, so that Trnje becomes the central urban settlement and along Grada Vukovara Street the construction of residential buildings and buildings of city and state institutions begins, which are still important today. In this article, today’s cityscape of Trnje is considered and it is analyzed whether Trnje, after such a turbulent urban-sociological past, fulfills the elements of high-quality urban housing