Creating Business/ Commercial Areas in Urban/Physical Planning: Linking the Ideal City Concept with Contemporary European Strategies and Croatian Legislation
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https://doi.org/10.31522/p.34.1(71).10Keywords:
business/commercial areas, ideal city, physical planning, urban planningAbstract
In this article, the authors explore the historical development of the business/commercial area concept in the ideal city, from the earliest utopian visions to contemporary sustainable urban and physical planning. The study analyzes how different urban theories, from the earliest periods of antiquity and Renaissance ideal cities, through 19th-century industrial utopias, to modern and postmodern concepts, have influenced the consideration and implementation of business and business and commercial functions (production, crafts, services, trade, etc.) within the urban fabric. Particular emphasis was placed on identifying continuities and discontinuities in the approach to integrating economic functions into urban and physical planning. Using the Croatian legislative framework as an example, the authors aim to demonstrate how the principles of utopian thought and sustainable development
have been implemented in the physical planning of these areas.
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