Finally the Master Plan of Belgrade is released by the French planner Alban
Chambon in 1912^82. It attempts to create a uniform town structure and to
connect the old and the new urban parts. He introduces characteristic traits of
the French urbanism to Belgrade. The Master Plan provides a valuable proposal
of a circular boulevard thus clearly dividing the urbanized area from the rest of
the city. The town is covered by a regular orthogonal network of communications
and numerous diagonal directions, forming trident- and star-shaped squares.
The planner also proposes the formation of eleven monumental ensembles
with Beaux-Art style representative public edifices, inter-connected with wide
boulevards.
The requirement for esthetic values and monumentality of the public spaces
complies with the spirit of the French academic tradition. Haussmann’s
Fig. 10
The first Master Plan of
Belgrade from 1912, made
by Alban Chambond.
(Reproduction, Vukotić-Lazar/
Lalošević)Mirjana Roter Blagojević