Planning Capital Cities

and plague epidemics, the number of its inhabitants decreases. The trade and

the commerce as well as the construction of new buildings are experiencing

stagnation.^2 From the many preserved memories and books, left behind by

some traveling writers in that time, we can get the impression that the Old Town

is devastated.^3 Brush’s map from 1789 presents an urban pattern combining

the narrow and curved Levantine streets and the Austrian straight streets, with

the Great Market located square in the city center.^4

Fig. 1
The main urban areas and
communication of the
Old Belgrade in 19th and early
20 th century.
(M.Roter Blagojević/S.Rajić)