Journal of
Faculty of Civil Engineering

IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONTEMPORARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN
CIVIL ENGINEERING
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS , 2024.y., pp. 83-83

	DOI: 10.14415/CACE2024.39
	UDC: 711.4 : 904
	CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
	Author : Stajić, Dušan; Momčilović Petronijević, Ana; Cvetković, Ivana; Stanimirović, Mirko
	Summary:
	The migration of people to the cities leads to the need for a more extensive housing stock and, therefore, to expanding housing and public buildings. Unfortunately, this causes the problem of changing the visual identity of the old city centers. Cultural monuments and buildings with monumental properties are threatened, not only directly by upgrades and excessive adaptations but also by the position of newly constructed buildings. The silhouette of the city and the specific ambient unit, which once consisted of religious buildings, memorials, or other significant objects, is being drastically changed. The paper analyzes authentic micro-locations and buildings with monumental properties, which once represented significant benchmarks in certain parts of the city. However, they have lost this function due to excessive construction in their immediate vicinity. It is impossible to see them in the multitude of surrounding buildings. The paper aims to point out this increasingly frequent phenomenon through several examples that present the problem well. At the end of the work, guidelines are given that are essential for preserving the ambient units of cities.
	Keywords:
	PROTECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE, CULTURAL PROPERTY, VISUAL DEGRADATION, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, IDENTITY OF URBAN UNITS