Methodological barriers in systemic planning of urban green networks in Serbia

Abstract

The urban planning practice in Serbia lacks systemic approach to development of urban green networks (UGN), and may support possible divergent developmental trends in planning of UGN and serve as constant drawback in establishing common platform for planning and monitoring of UGN. Thus, this paper introduce potential improvements of the existing methodology by first providing analysis of the critical issues in the current methodological frame and then, reviewing system of qualitative and quantitative indicators in comparison to the examples of good practice from EU cities, it discuses possible improvements of existing methodological frame and indicators, for more systemic development of UGN.