1st WORKSHOP on City of Belgrade Development Strategy (CBDS)

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, February 23, 2007

Before commencing the work on the SWOT analysis as one the first components of the future comprehensive development strategy for Belgrade, PALGO Center facilitated the first meeting on the project methodology with the members of the City Commission for Strategic Plan Preparation, selected stakeholders and foreign consultants.

The Workshop held on February 23, 2007 in SCTM premises in Belgrade was the first occasion, out of three events scheduled, to meet with foreign consultants. This Workshop was attended by: Ms. Athena Yiannakou from Thessaloniki, Mr. Bernhard Müller from Dresden and Mr. Friedrich Schindegger from Vienna.

In the morning session PALGO Center’s team of experts explained the context of the previous work on the Report on the status of the City of Belgrade (Prof. Vlastimir Matejić) and presented the main characteristics of the City of Belgrade: 1. Physical and environmental development (Žaklina Gligorijević), 2. Economic development (Darko Savić), 3. Social development (Ksenija Petovar), 4. Development of infrastructure systems (Zoran Žegarac), 5. Traffic and Transportation development (Svetlana Vukanović), 6. Institutional development – governance (Borislav Stojkov).

The key elements for the CBDS methodology were presented by Project Coordinator, Prof. Borislav Stojkov in the morning session (download presentation here), and then commented by Workshop participants in the afternoon session. The afternoon was dedicated to regional experiences and dialog with consultants and experts present.

Workshop participants:

1. Athena Yiannakou, Thessaloniki
2. Bernhard Müller, Dresden
3. Friedrich Schindegger, Vienna


4. Radmila Hrustanović, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade
5. Zoran Alimpić, Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade
6. Andreja Mladenović, Member of the City Council
7. Slobodan Karanović, Director, Institute of Informatics and Statistics 
8. Ljiljana Lazić, Director, Service for Assembly Affairs and Regulations 
9. Branislav Božović, Secretary, Secretariat for Environmental Protection
10. Lana Pavlović-Aleksić, Coordinator of the Deputy Mayor Office


11. Borislav Stojkov, Project Coordinator
12. Veronika Vujošević, Economic Development Coordinator
13. Ksenija Petovar, Socal Development Coordinator
14. Dejan Filipović, Physical and Enviromental Development Coordinator
15. Zoran Žegarac, Development of  Infrastructure Systems Coordinator 
16. Bogdan Lukić, Faculty of Geography, Belgrade University
17. Radmila Miletić, Institute of Geographicy Jovan Cvijić, SASA
18. Darko Savić, Town Planning Institute, Belgrade
19. Žaklina Gligorijević, Town Planning Institute, Belgrade
20. Marina Ilić, Institute for General and Physical Chemistry
21. Svetlana Vukanović, Siemens d.o.o. Belgrade
22. Tamara Đukić, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Belgrade University
23. Aleksandar Đorđević, Faculty of Geography, Department of Spatial Planning
24. Dušan Damjanović, PALGO Center
25. Olivera Janković, PALGO Center
26. Vlastimir Matejić, Project Coordinator of the “Report on the Status of the City of Belgrade“ (PALGO Center, 2006)


27. Đorđe Staničić, Secretary General of SCTM
28. Klara Danilović, Committee on Urbanism, SCTM
29. Đorđe Mojović, Program Director UN HABITAT
30. Ratka Čolić, UN HABITAT
31. Slobodanka Prekajski, Belgrade Land Development Public Agency
32. Vladimir Depolo, Belgrade Land Development Public Agency
33. Vladimir Jovanović, SCTM
34. Aleksandar Popović, SCTM
35. Pavle Radić, Municipality of New Belgrade, Local Development Center

This project is supported by Open Society Institute – LGI  (Budapest) and Belgrade City Authority

Project period: December 15, 2006 to January 15, 2008

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