Layers of Time in the Urban Landscape: Visions of Socialist Urbanism in Mitrovica - Hardcover

by Pieter Troch (Editor), Thomas Janssens (Editor)

Kosovo's Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav ideological premises.

Layers of Time in the Urban Landscape is a unique cooperative endeavor at the intersection of photography and history, aiming to document the overlaps in the socialist and post-conflict transformations of the city of Mitrovica. It powerfully demonstrates that the material remnants of the socialist metamorphosis of the city are more than passive leftovers of a lost age. Rather, they continue to give meaning to post-socialist, postindustrial and post-conflict socio-spatial configurations in Mitrovica.