- Low Carboning in not Law Abiding Land Use: the Case Study in Belgrade    1968 kb by    Milakovic, Mira & Graovac, Ana | mira.milakovic@gmail.com    Short Outline The main topic of this paper is the specific use of green areas developed and naturally grown along Belgrade’s riverbanks. In specific conditions some of the informal dwellings can be seen as ’’low carbon’’ in their social, economic and building aspect. Abstract Last few decades Serbia is experiencing strong transitional impact, which is maybe the most „visible“ in the field of urban development. Regardless of existing bad practice, the major natural potentials in the core of the city-on-two-rivers are preserved and „protected“ through urban plans – green ’’lungs’’ of the city – river isles, wetlands, forelands, water-supply areas and fens. Some of them are urban-planned and physically urbanized, while most of them are assorted and preserved in their natural habitat and represents true natural wealth in central area of the city. At the intersection of this two superposed tendentions and on the edge of visible urban life lies the need of Belgrade citizens for temporal stay or dwelling at the river banks.This isn’t legally formulated nor supported through plans, but it has its physical ’’footprint’’ in spontaneous building of the boat-rafts, log-cabins, pile dwellings and bungalows along river banks, isles and wetlands. The main topic of this paper is urban planning and specific use of green areas developed and naturally grown along city’s riverbanks. Its main thessis will be that in specific, atypical conditions some of the informal dwellings can be seen as ’’low carbon’’ in their social, economic and building aspect. In other words, exactly they can spontaneously reach the criteria of low carbon building, although percieved as informal and without proper infrastructure. This paper will consist of three parts: 1. Theoretical analysis of low-carbon building and non-carbon and carbon-cycling environments 2. Comparative analysis of urbanized and informally used green areas and areas for recreation from the low-carbon criteria aspect - Belgrade case study (Ada Ciganlija, Ada Medjica, Big War Island, Big Mud Wetland) 3. Conclusion/guidelines for urban planning of natural green areas near riverbanks and possibility of low-carboning in non-carbon environment, derived from the analysis and examples of their informal use. Keywords green areas, city riverbanks, low carboning, non-carbon environment, Belgrade planning Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2011: LIVEABLE CITIES: URBANISING WORLD, Meeting the Challenge   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper