STAGNACIJA URBANIH OBMOČIJ V 'STAGNIRANI' SRBIJI - PRISTOP H GLOBALNEMU POJAVU V LOKALNEM KONTEKSTU

The second step was the customisation of the obtained findings to the data available in Serbian conditions. [...]reliable official statistical data with a history of stable and regular interval collecting is used; from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia for the definition of (urban) settlement and demographic data and from the National Agency for Regional Development for economic data. [...]economic decline can be amortised by brownfield regeneration - the successful transformation of old industrial areas into new service, trade and technology hubs (Panagopoulos, 2009). [...]the officially named cities in Serbia were previously municipalities, with bigger urban settlements as their seats and a huge dependent rural area around them. [...]the entire research is based on an analysis by two criteria: population decline and economic decline. 2.3Demographic criterion The demographic analysis is based on statistical data from the last two official censuses, conducted in 2002 and 2011.