Open AccessThe impact of a hydroelectric power station on the development and modernization of the Bajina Basta settlement during the socialist period
Author(s) -
Ivana Vučetić
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
spatium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.13
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2217-8066
pISSN - 1450-569X
DOI - 10.2298/spat1839047v
Subject(s) - modernization theory , hydroelectricity , human settlement , industrialisation , electrification , settlement (finance) , geography , economy , political science , engineering , business , electricity , archaeology , economics , electrical engineering , finance , payment , law
During the process of socialist modernization, initiated after WWII, large development projects in Serbia were the main drivers of urban transformation. Electrification and industrialization resulted in the establishment of new production modes, which defined a new socio-economic background for the development of settlements and the modification of their functional and morphological structure. The construction of the Bajina Basta hydroelectric power station, in the middle section of the Drina River in western Serbia, was one of the development projects, and it triggered the transformation of the environment, upgrading the pre-war small town of Bajina Basta into a new urban node, adjusted to the socialist imperatives and standards of progress.