SOCIOLOGICAL - HOUSING AND CITY PLANNING

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230804-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 804
• Publication Date: June 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT~?r+L IN1 ftLIGENCE ^GcW?`Y
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Sociological - Housing and city planning
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Belgrade
DATE
PUBLISHED 21 Aky 1949
LANGUAGE
Serbo-Croatian
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SOURCE
Da, No 197, 191+9
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
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NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SDDPWE. GORIZIA TO BE RHSUILT
MIILIOIE ADPBORIZED 7012 E30PLTE -- Duga, No 197, 21 May 49
acthing will remain of the present city of Skoplje but its historical
sonumunts vhra the rebu+lding program, already under way, is completed.
The present oi4y has no sewage syste>s, water system, or baths. The
government of Skoplje has now authorized an expenditure of millions of dinare
to rebuilt the Macedonia' capital: 200 million for housing, 36 million for
sewage a;ad water systems, 16 million for trades enterprises, 6 million for
municipal collective farms, and 2 million for a modern market place.
The eutYre Turkish quarter will be razed, and wide streets and boulevards
with large modem buildings rill be built in its place. On both sides of
the Vardar a large boulevard `-tote's wide vill be built and lined with trees
and grass.
The so-called new section of Skoplje also will be transformed. Only the
historical mcatmiente, forts, castles, churches, mosques, ;ridges, and the like
will remain. Zv rythiug e.se will be destroyed to make room for the modern
city.
The old Pit Pazar (Market), which always was a filthy place, will be re-
placed by a new market, with modern equilMient, drinking water, and a savage
system. Trees will be planted on Vodno Mouutain,and a hotel and labor union
resort will be built on it. The village of Gorno Vodno will be treasfoaasd
into a modern resort for workers. The polluted stream in Gorno Todno will be
replaced by an artificial lake. The Vardar will be regulated by volunteer
labor, and the reclamation of Skoplje Polae will recover 8,000 hectares of
land for cultivation.
CLASSIFICATION
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HOW
NEW CITY TO R1SE IN SUBURB OF GORIZIA -- Duga, No 197, 21 May 49
After the boabardment of the Slovenian quarter of Oori>tia and the terror
under Anglo-American occupation, the Slovenian population fled. to Yugoslavia.
Barbed wire crosses six roads and three railroad lines, cutting off all the
important part of the city, the hospital. Chet eery, the whole city and
vicinity, and aanypburuaniee, schools, and other .institutions, which lie
on the Italian aide of the boundary.
Nova Gorica (Nov Gorizia), larger, finer, and acre modorn than the old
city, will be built on the site of these rained suburbs by thousands of
youths from all parts of Yugoslavia. last year 7 kilometers of coder road
were built to convect the six roads, nor cutoff by barbed. wire, with the
sabux'be of Solffin ant. Sent Peter.
The new city will have 15,000 inhabitants by the and. of the year and
about 30,000 by the end of the First Five-Year Plan, 1951. The federal govern-
sent granted 150 million dinare in 1948 alomefor the. conatruotin ofbuildings,
50,000 square u %ers.of which will to built oy the and of 1951.
The new center of the Gorica district will extend across the Ioaoberg high-
]and along the border and will include the to hills of Asnbvec and 0atbrljel.
the Bus bolina will beceaea residential quarter, containing large, modern
apartdantdevelopaents. Large factories, a wood industry cabins, and a
furniture factory will provide emplo7nent for thousands of workers. The city
will have its own schools, hospitals, and recreation grounds.
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