New Article: Assessing Public Open Spaces in Belgrade – A quality of Urban Life Perspective.

April 30, 2021

New Article: Assessing Public Open Spaces in Belgrade – A quality of Urban Life Perspective.

Assessing public open spaces in Belgrade – A quality of urban life perspective
Tamara Vukovic, Ashraf M. Salama, Biserka Mitrovic, Mirjana Devetakovic.

This paper interrogates the impact of spatial transformations on urban life. It explores the level of individual and group satisfaction and sense of well-being within the urban public realm by reporting on the outcomes of an assessment study of three key public open spaces in Belgrade. The paper is an outcome of a European Commission funded project – KA107 academics and PhD students mobility and exchange between University of Strathclyde, Scotland and University of Belgrade, Serbia (2017-2019). Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research.

Published online: 8 April 2021, see here >>>>>>

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ARCH-04-2020-0064/full/html

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).