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WРУAБTРEИRКAАND ARCHITECTURE
IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT
TO REOPEN THE TOPIC WATER/
THE RIVER AND THE CITY
Dr. Jovan Ivanovski, docent at When it comes to ideas how to develop this important city area,
the Faculty of Architecture,
Skopje
30 July-August 2016
Water is one of cultivation of land. Almost all
the most admir- most important civilization cen-
ing “elements” ters “embrace” water areas: Cairo
in the universe, is on the Nile Delta, Rome is on
represented at the banks of Tiber, Paris is built
every level and measure – from by Seine, as the same applies for
the space to the atom. Apart from London, New York, Los Angeles,
being biological basis of the living Sidney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and
beings, in anthropological sense, other cities whose development is
it is closely related to the human due to the fact that they are lo-
evolution and the development cated on the banks of large water
of civilization. The long travel basins.
from prehistory to modern times
can be perceived only through Skopje, the city by the river
observation of the position and Vardar, being the main demo-
the role of water, where one of graphic, industrial and economic
the most essential transitions of center of the Republic of Macedo-
the human from a hunter-picker nia, on several grounds can be in-
to agriculturalist arises precisely dicated as an example that shows
from the utilization of water for the challenges that arise from the
need of constant critical consid-
it is advisable to approach with great attention and expertise
to the planning process, in order to make it as inclusive as
possible. By engagement of all available human potentials –
from the managing authorities and the planning enterprising
through the architectural and design practices, all the way to
associations of engaged citizens – every person’s creativity
should be used, which is in the direction of generation of
alternative projects for the space whose ultimate goal would
be the needs and the desires of all users of the river/the city.
Only such democratic approach to planning can create a “new
offer” for development of the river Vardar, whose ultimate goal
would be to “bring Skopje closer” to the space that it always
belonged to.