Second Workshop on City of Belgrade Development Strategy

Belgrade City Assembly, November 29, 2007

Drafting the City of Belgrade Development Strategy (CBDS) has entered the final phase of defining priority strategic projects and implementation instruments.

The second phase was ended with the Workshop on general goals and operational tasks in each of the thematic fields that the future development strategy is based upon. In this work phase, priority strategic projects were defined according to the general vision of the City of Belgrade, while in the next phase they will be harmonized with factual financial and legal framework, and at the same time responsibilities will be outlined for the institutions that should carry out these projects.

The CBDS Workshop was held on November 29, 2007 in the Main Hall of the Belgrade Assembly and next to PALGO’s team of experts, various stakeholders were present, as well as the international consultants: Athena Yiannakou (Thessaloniki), Bernhard Müller (Dresden), Friedrich Schindegger (Vienna) and Katallin Pallai (Budapest).

After the introductory speech of Zoran Alimpic, acting mayor of the City of Belgrade, project coordinator Borislav Stojkov gave an overview of the previous work on CBDS preparation, explained the status of the City of Belgarde and presented the Strategy general goal together with the development principles: polycentricism, identity, cohesion, accessibility, competitiveness and sustainability (download presentation here).

In the morning and afternoon session, the following presentations were given: 1 territorial competitiveness: economic development (Darko Savić), 2. territorial cohesion: social development (Ksenija Petovar), 3. territorial identity: urban development and identity (Žaklina Gligorijević), 4. territorial accessibility: infrastructure (Zoran Žegarac) and traffic and transportation (Smiljan Vukanović), 5. territorial sustainability: environment (Dejan Filipović) and 6. polycentrism, decentralization and regional integrations: City governance (Borislav Stojkov).

A discussion followed each of these presentations. Key elements of the international consultants’ comments were about concretization of the priorities according to the objective estimations of the projects’ value and responsibility of the institutions that should accomplish them. The comments of the present stakeholders were mostly focused on poor legal regulation, with direct impact on the City government competences.

Workshop participants and attendees:

1. Athena Yiannakou, Thessaloniki
2. Bernhard Müller, Dresden
3. Friedrich Schindegger, Vienna
4. Katalin Pallai, Budapest


5. Zoran Alimpić, acting mayor of the City of Belgrade
6. Slobodan Karanović, director, Institute of Informatics and Statistics 
7. Lana Pavlović-Aleksić, City Mayor cabinet
8. Velibor Pešić, Secretary, Secretariat for Finances
9. Bojan Stanojević, City Manager
10. Đorđe Bobić, Chief Architect
11. Mirjana Arnautović, City administration


12. Jelena Stević, Secretariat for sport and youth
13. Dragan Stefanović, Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
14. Vladimir Depolo, Belgrade Land Development Public Agency
15. Slobodanka Prekajski, Belgrade Land Development Public Agency
16. Predrag Grubin, Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
17. Đorđe Mazinjanin, Secretariat for Economy
18. Miodrag Ferenčak, Town Planning Institute
19. Nada Vujošević Vesović, Secretariat for Urban Planning and Construction
20. Vera Tošić, Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
21. Maja Dragutinović, Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
22. Radmila Urošević, Secretariat for social and children’s welfare
23. Radmila Purić, Secretariat for social and children’s welfare
24. Ksenija Simunović, Public Utility Company “Water Supply and Sewage of Belgrade”
25. Marina Živanović, Public Utility Company “Water Supply and Sewage of Belgrade”
26. Radmila Kostantinović, Secretariat for Urban Planning and Construction
27. Ivana Avžner, Secretariat for Culture
28. Vladan Šubarević, city council
29. Biljana Čukić, Secretariat for Economy
30. Marija Jančić, Secretariat for Economy
31. Zorica Nedović-Budić,
32. Dragica Moro, Secretariat for Education
33. Mirjana Dželebdžić, Belgrade City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments
34. Tamara Maričić, IAUS
35. Rade Borojević, Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
36. Ljiljana Dragić,
37. Maja Jovanović, Secretariat for Environmental protection
38. Sanja Jankelić, Secretariat for Health Care
39. Maša Đorđević, LGI, Budapest

40. Borislav Stojkov, project coordinator, PALGO Center
41. Ksenija Petovar, social development coordinator
42. Vuk Stambolović, social development
43. Dejan Filipović, environment development coordinator
44. Danijela Obradović, environment development
45. Zoran Žegarac, infrastructure development coordinator
46. Bogdan Lukić, infrastructure development
47. Nenad Đajić, infrastructure development
48. Radmila Miletić, economic development
49. Darko Savić, economic development
50. Žaklina Gligorijević, physical structure and identity
51. Smiljan Vukanović, traffic development coordinator
52. Tamara Đukić, traffic development
53. Svetlana Vukanović, traffic development
54. Aleksandar Đorđević, e-government
55. Dušan Damjanović, PALGO Center
56. Olivera Janković, PALGO Center

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

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