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September 29, 2026Contemporary Problems and Sustainability of Urban Settlements in the Territory of Vojvodina
Project name: Contemporary Problems and Sustainability of Urban Settlements in the Territory of Vojvodina
Project number: 142-451-2615/2021-01/2
Total project budget: 901,730.00 RSD
Project funded by: Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research Activity.
Project members: Dr. Ivana Blešić (project leader), Dr. Milka Bubalo Živković, Dr. Tamara Lukić, Dr. Tatjana Pivac, Dr. Bojan Đerčan, Dr. Sanja Kovačić, Dr. Marija Cimbaljević, Dr. Dajana Bjelajac
Cities have always been and have remained the center of culture, economy, politics and society. Diversity, bustle, creativity, aesthetics, cultural, economic and social opportunities make cities exciting and dynamic, but on the other hand, cities are the centers of humanity's greatest problems. They are centers of high unemployment, poverty, crime, crowds of people in a small space, high environmental pollution, etc. Today, medium-sized cities are in focus, especially in Europe. These cities are fighting for their place and their path towards the global, modern market with large cosmopolitan cities. This fight is not at all easy, and that is why they manage in various ways, using creativity and innovation as their trump cards in their urban development. Thus, it is precisely medium-sized cities, in Western Europe, America, and now more widely, that are the cradle of progress and the planned transition from a production economy to a service economy.
Project objectives and list of published papers within the project
- Identifying the problems of cities in Vojvodina and the directions for solving them based on conversations with the population and field research
- Possible paths for forming sustainable cities through ecological, social, economic and cultural aspects.
- Achieving cross-border cooperation through the exchange of opinions, experiences and obtained scientific results in solving the same and similar problems.
- Highlighting the importance of managing new technologies and data with the aim of exploiting consistent and reliable data in real time.
- Determining the quality of life in cities.
- Determining the conceptual framework of the creative city (how different, innovative and attractive they are to their citizens and therefore to tourists).
- Defining a possible model of urban tourism development that has the potential to contribute in an efficient and effective way to increasing the attractiveness of the city destination.
- Šagovnović, I., Pivac, T. and Kovačić, S., 2022. Examining antecedents of residents' support for the European Capital of Culture project–event's sustainability perception, emotional solidarity, community attachment and brand trust. International Journal of Event and Festival Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEFM-02-2021-0009
- Blešić, I., Pivac, T., Kovačić, S., Cimbaljević, M., Lukić, T., Bubalo Živković, M., Đerčan, B. and Bjelajac, D., 2022. Place Attachment, Cultural Involvement, and Residents' Attitudes towards Tourism Development: The Case of Novi Sad, the European Capital of Culture 2022. Sustainability, 14(15), p.9103. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159103
- Gatarić, D., Đerčan, B., Živković, M.B., Ostojić, M., Manojlović, S., Sibinović, M., Lukić, T., Jeftić, M., Lutovac, M. and Lutovac, M., 2022. Can Depopulation Stop Deforestation? The Impact of Demographic Movement on Forest Cover Changes in the Settlements of the South Banat District (Serbia). Frontiers in Environmental Science, p.418. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.897201
- Gatarić D, Đerčan B. Development, state and perspectives of urban geography with special review of Serbia. Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke. 2022(181):95-109. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZMSDN2281095G
- Anđelković, Ž., Kovačić, S., Bratić, M., Vujičić, M.D., Stankov, U., Pavluković, V., Dragin, A., Pivac, T., Ivkov Džigurski, A., Ivanović Bibić, L. and Zadel, Z., 2022. Museum Tour Guide Performance: A Visitor Perspective. Sustainability, 14(16), p.10269. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610269