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The reflection of social, political and most of all economic transition in Serbia has brought the challenges of changes in the field of planning and building laws and regulation and consequently in planning and building standards and norms for housing. The process of shifting from state driven, socialistic legislative framework and practice to the market driven is still shaking the planning and building environment and leaving the sensitive urban function of housing unattended and exposed to the negative influence of these changes. Hence the appropriate housing regulation, in accordance with EU legislative housing context and good practice, is treated as initiative factor for housing development in Serbia. The subject of the analysis in this paper is the Act of the general rules of parcelling, regulation and building, which is important because it is strongly related to the current urban planning practice in Serbia. Accordingly, selected norms defined by the Act will be compared to the cases of best EU practice, with the aim to examine its potentials and the possibility of improvement.

The Strategy of Danube Region of European Union is one of new European development initiatives and documents on regional development. Its central element is the Danube, which is the main European river and one of the key transport corridors of Europe. This is the reason why it is inevitable element of future development of the EU. Serbia is one of central states in the Danube region with long flow of the Danube. In accordance with this the importance of Serbian cities and towns on the Danube is visible for its future development and competitiveness and its integration in the wider, "Danubian" region and EU. All these towns have extraordinary position as a potential, but they also have many local characteristics and differ notably in numerous fields. Therefore, the implementation of the "global" actions and priorities of the strategy can be the challenge on local level in Serbia. Finally, it is questionable how the strategically proclaimed integral approach can be used in so different cases in Serbia. These questions were the fundament for education-based research in the course at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. The theory of regional and urban planning was the keystone for the structuring of the course aims and process. The phases were organized to achieve the permanent relation between global/regional and local/urban level. Accordingly, course participants had two roles; all of them had one Danube town as a "research field" and everyone was the part of the team with responsibility of making networks between towns. The result of the course was the set of actions, options and models of both development of the towns separately and the development of whole region in Serbia. This paper aims to present how the research can be good illustration for "real" planning actions, where the main focus is making of connections and networking between global/regional and local/urban level.

This paper deals with the structural changes of the development of the National Park Kopaonik region and discusses different points of view. The emphasis has been put on the relation between seemingly opposite concepts: different aspects of sustainable planning on one side, and market requrements on the other. Sustainable planning and market requirements in the current planning practice in Serbia are predominantly observed as opposing concepts which, in many cases exclude each other. In that context, environmental – ecological sustainability is mostly the only aspect treated by local, regional and republic government bodies, whilst the market demands and the growth of local economy are practically viewed only as profitability and economic gain. As a result, this paper will emphasize the pros and cons of both approaches, giving the possibilities of coexistence and potential compatibility these two concepts through the example of local plan for valuable natural area within National Park. Therefore, the framework for local planning is based on preservation of natural resources and outstanding potential for tourism, sport and recreation. Sustainability through intelligent resource management seems to be the only acceptable concept where regional values and local needs can meet. The papers presents the course of research and practical application of selected principles which, unifying and giving equal importance to ecological, institutional, social and economic sustainability, create realistic conditions for the development of local communities and spatial units with special natural values on the basis of good managing and preserving resources and the revival of local economy.