All rights reservedLakic, Sonja2024-10-232024-10-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2117Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southIn 2001, privatisation of socially owned apartments was initiated in Republika Srpska (one out of the two post-war emerged entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, here referred to as ‘the entity’). The process, which was considered an integral part of political ‘preparatory strategies for the inevitable economic and political transformation’ (Petrović, 2001, p. 216), resulted in variety of socio-spatial changes, producing ‘more serious negative (social) effects than expected’ (Petrović, 2005, p. 10). The new post-privatisation era was first and foremost characterised by the epidemic of the new means of behaviour of local population, who started setting themselves free what was suppressed during the socialism – e.g. ‘personalism, spontaneity, fragmentation’ (Hirt, 2012, p. 65) by reshaping their own apartments according to their own needs and, more importantly, their personal taste. These informal practices soon became so widespread and highly tolerated that ‘one might even hesitate to call them illegal’ (Petrović, 2005, p. 18). They led to anarchy and ‘overwhelming feeling of disorder’ (Hirt, 2012, p. 46), resulting in specific type of illegality I define as the new residential landscapes.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject863-865