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

By Pieter Troch

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3868595449
• ISBN13: 9783868595444
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Jovis Verlag
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 11.0"