Planning, Spontaneity and Environment: An Underpass in the Housing Facilities of Trnsko -- Trokut in Zagreb

In this paper, the authors deal with the project of the one-rail underpass in one of the 'collective new settlements' -- Trnsko in Zagreb and the discrepancy that exists between the plans and reality in the use of the existing space. The recently finished plan for the underpass, as well as the plan for the new park area to be organized around the underpass, came into conflict with the existing and -- for many years -- lasting practice of local inhabitants who, through time, have transformed that area for their private use (gardening, vegetable growing, socializing, etc.). The methods used in this analysis were observation and interviews with a number of inhabitants on the spot. The analysis showed that the new situation imposed by the new project will destroy the existing practices and -- through urban ideas -- set up 'a new order', in the sense that the planning order is always more acceptable and more 'right' than the spontaneously emerged one. Adapted from the source document.