the strip surrounding the moat. The state buys up the majority of the Muslim
estates, so that a great part of the urban area becomes in a possession of it and
a more radical urban reconstruction is possible.
The situation and the existing number of houses in the Old Town are recorded
for the first time in a land survey by the university professor Emilijan Josimović,
in the period of 1864-1867.^43 The cadastral plan published in 1867 contains
all the communications and the buildings of solid construction. Based on the
land survey, Josimović makes and publishes his explanation of proposal for
the urban regulation of the part of Belgrade, which lies within the moat as a
lithographic plan in the scale of 1/3000.^44 He preserves the majority of the
solidly built houses and the main communications, inherited from the Austrian
reconstruction in the beginning of the 18th century. With minimal corrections
Fig. 6
The City Reconstruction
Plan of Old Belgrade Town
in Moat, made by Emilijan
Josimović, published in 1867.
(Reproduction, Maksimović)Mirjana Roter Blagojević