The Southeast Passage
The Southeast Passage
Andreas Guidi
#019 – A New Town in Socialist Yugoslavia in Comparative Perspective
39 minutes Posted Apr 6, 2017 at 4:37 pm.
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with Ana Kladnik   The new town center of Velenje, early 1960s (Velenje Museum) After 1945, Yugoslavia aimed at fostering its industrial infrastructure by bringing factories closer to the sites where natural resources were abundant. The “new town” of Velenje in Slovenia was planned in this context in order to provide good housing for the coal…