- An engine for bottom-up urban development in action: A case study of Savamala civic district   334 kb by    Cvetinovic, Marija & Kucina, Ivan & Bolay, Jean-Claude | marija.cvetinovic@epfl.ch    Short Outline The conceptual framework explained herein examines the blurred and askew structure of neglected urban neighbourhoods in post-socialist cities. Abstract The conceptual framework explained herein examines the blurred and askew structure of neglected urban neighbourhoods in post-socialist cities. This requires innovative, small-scale, dynamic proposals in order to overcome the rigid administrative procedure of urban development and to transform the negative side effects of imitating and lagging behind the conventional urbanisation model and those of the accelerating globalisation into a development impetus suited to these environments. In this highly competitive international economic and political arena, transitional countries experience severe consequences due to the paucity of practical experience within this new context of a market economy and decentralised political and administrative powers, a lack of resources, the scarcity of general international investment and scant interest in seeing dramatic shifts in all aspects of social organisation and urban transformations. The alternative strategy could be put forth through bottom-up spatial production of all the urban actors and stakeholders involved as a common denominator of a non-intrusive platform for the active representation, assessment and management of urban conflicts as a range of iterative “inter-states”. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper