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UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE
FACULTY OF
ARCHITECTURE
BULEVAR KRALJA ALEKSANDRA 73/II, 11120 BELGRADE, SERBIA
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Aleksandra Stupar, PhD

Professor

Department of Urbanism

Room: 305

Scientific field:
Urbanism

Research interests:

Urban studies (urban phenomena, urban innovations, urban transition, urban history) 

  

Dr. Aleksandra Stupar is full professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, where she graduated and obtained her magister and PhD degree. She has been involved in numerous research projects, studies, plans and workshops focused on the problems of contemporary cities, especially related to the aspects of urban innovations and urban transition. She has been the head of Doctoral studies since 2024 and was the head of the Department of Urbanism (2017-2024). 

Dr. Stupar is author of two awarded books – ‘Grad globalizacije – izazovi, transformacije, simboli‘ (‘The City of Globalization – Challenges, Transformations, Symbols‘, 2009) and ‘Grad – forme i procesi‘ (‘The City – Forms and Processes‘, 2016/2019/2024), 27 scientific articles (22 international and 5 national), more than 20 book chapters and over 60 international conference papers.  

She has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) in Graz (2007, 2011), the University of Tampere – School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2010/11/12/13), as well as a guest lecturer at the Sapienza Università di Roma – Facoltà di architettura Valle Giulia (2006,2008/9), University of Helsinki – Faculty of Social Sciences (2019) and Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul (2021). Guest editor of the Serbian Architectural Journal (‘City vs. Innovation‘, 2012).  

Member of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) and its Scientific Committee (2013-16), general rapporteur (Siena, 2024), conference rapporteur (Antwerp, 2007; Brussels, 2022). National representative in AESOP (2018-22), member of EAUH. 

  

Awards – selected 

  • 2017, Ranko Radović Award – book  ‘Grad – forme i procesi‘ (‘City – Forms and Processes‘), OrionArt, Belgrade, 2016. 
  • 2009, The award for the best publication of the 18th International Urban Planners’ Exhibition/UUS, Niš, Serbia – book  ‘Grad globalizacije – izazovi, transformacije, simboli‘ (‘The City of Globalization – Challenges, Transformations, Symbols‘), OrionArt, Faculty of Architecture – University of Belgrade, 2009. 
  • 2008, ISOCARP/Gerd Albers Award – for the article ”The Magic Mirror of Sustainability: Glittering Ideas, Gloomy Reality”, in Thematic Conference Proceedings 1, International Scientific Conference ‘Sustainable Spatial Development of Towns and Cities‘, IAUS, Belgrade, 2007, pp. 99-114 
  • 2007, ISOCARP/Gerd Albers Award – Honorary Mention –  for the article ”The City of Technology: Redefining the Role of STS Approach in the Global Comprehension”, in Rohracher H., Tchalakov I., Mali F. eds., ‘Governing Sociotechnical Change in Southeaster Europe – Contributions From a Science and Technology Studies Perspective’, Iztok-Zapad Publishing House, Sofia, 2007, pp. 242-255 
  • 2005, The best paper award of the 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference, Tokyo, Japan – paper “Sustainability – Necessity, Myth or Political Manipulation of the Globalized World?”  (co-author A. Djukic) 
  • Since 2001 – 16 awards for various plans, studies and projects at the annual International Urban Planners’ Exhibitions held in Serbia (as a co-author, team member, expert) 

 

Research projects and grants 

International 

  • 2025-2029, Project LINA (Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture) PLATFORM, Creative Europe Program (project manager on behalf of the member organisation Association of Belgrade Architects ASA/Belgrade International Architecture Week BINA)  
  • 2025-2027, Danube Ruralscapes – INTERREG EU Danube Region Programme (researcher) 
  • 2024-2028, COST EU Action CA23101 – Building Opportunities for Participation and Accessibility through lifelong community Mobility (BOPALiM) (WP3 member)  
  • 2024-2028, COST EU Action CA23117 – Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms, and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (WP3, 5, 6 member)  
  • 2024, Urban Oases: Sustainable Transformation of Neglected Spaces, EUNIC (EU National Institutes for Culture) cluster fund grant (team member/expert on behalf of BINA and UB-AF) 
  • 2022-2025, CrAFt: Creating Actionable Futures, EU Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (scientific advisor for the BINA team) 
  • 2020-2022, Community Planning for a Change – Facilitating Transitions – Visegrad Fund (researcher) 
  • 2020-2022, DANUrB+ Cultural Heritage of the Danube as a Tool to Develop Local Opportunities and Common Brand of Underprivileged Communities – INTERREG EU Danube Transnational Programme (researcher) 
  • 2019-2023, CLEVER CITIES H2020 – Co-designing Locally tailored ecological solutions for value added, socially inclusive regeneration in cities (member of the working group for implementation in Belgrade, academy section) 
  • 2017- 2019, DANUrB – Danube Urban Brand – a regional network building through tourism and education to strengthen the “Danube” cultural identity and solidarity – INTERREG Danube Transnational Program (member of Steering Committee) 
  • 2010-2013, Cities and Transnational Interaction. The Cultural Contacts between West and East European Urban Centres during and beyond the Cold War, head of the project professor Marjatta Hietala, funded by the Academy of Finland (researcher) 
  • 2011, Towards the Ultimate E3-topia: Scrambling the Energy Efficient, Eco-Friendly and Electronic Urban Future?, individual research project at the IAS-STS, Graz, Austria (Manfred Heindler Grant) 
  • 2007, Shaping the Image of Globalization: The Role of Technology in Urban Regeneration, individual research project at the IAS-STS (Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society), Graz, Austria (grant) 
  • 2005-2006, South-East European Network for Science and Technology Studies: STS Contributions to the Governance of Socio-technical Change, funded by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office /Zentrum für Soziale Innovation/ (researcher) 

 

National 

  • 2011-2023, Spatial, ecological, energy and social aspects of the development of settlements and climate changes – interrelations, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (researcher) 
  • 2011-2023, Studying climate change and its influence on the environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (researcher) 
  • 1998-2010, researcher at 6 national projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia 

 

Guest Lectures – selected 

  • 2021, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul – The challenges of post-socialist transition: Shifting identities of Belgrade and Novi Sad (master program) 
  • 2019, University of Helsinki – The challenges of post-socialist transition: Shifting identities of Belgrade and Novi Sad, Doctoral Program in the Social Sciences Seminar Series/Urban Studies PhD seminar (Urban and Public Policy) 
  • 2019, University of Helsinki – Urban futures revisited: contested visions, innovative responses?, Introduction to Urban Studies (USP master program) 
  • 2019, Syracuse University – Syracuse Architecture/University of Belgrade – Cold War flows: Belgrade as a stage of architectural exchange (ARC 500 – Summer 2019 PE “Between Myth & Utopia: Architecture as Infrastructure”) 
  • 2014, Urban Design Group, London – Belgrade: Shifting Identities of the Capital 
  • 2012, Finland-Institute in Deutschland, University of Tampere, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin – Chasing the limelight: Belgrade and Istanbul in the global competition, within project ‘The Future is not a Foreign Country – Urban History Politics as an Agent of Continuity in the 20th Century’ (Academy of Finland), event ‘City Comparisons: possibilities and limitation’ 
  • 2011, University of Tampere, Department of History – East European Cities and Exchanged Expertise: The Case of Built Environment 
  • 2011, Institute for advanced studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria – Floating in a techno-bubble: Visions and emanations of a self-contained city 
  • 2009, Faculty of Architecture ‘Valle Giulia’, La Sapienza University, Rome – The Third Belgrade: Techno Visions of the Future 
  • 2008, Faculty of Architecture ‘Valle Giulia’, La Sapienza University, Rome – Belgrade: Shaping the Future 

  

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

Books 

  • Stupar, A. (2016, updated editions 2019, 2024) Grad – forme i procesi (City – Forms and Processes), OrionArt/Orionart books, Belgrade 
  • Stupar, A. (2009) Grad globalizacije – izazovi, transformacije, simboli (The City of Globalization – Challenges, Transformations, Symbols), OrionArt, Faculty of Architecture – University of Belgrade 

Selected articles 

  • Antonić, B., Stupar, A., Kovač, V., Sovilj, D., & Grujičić, A. (2024). Urban Regeneration through Cultural–Tourism Entrepreneurship Based on Albergo Diffuso Development: The Venac Historic Core in Sombor, Serbia. Land, 13(9), 1379, https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091379 
  • Balkoski D., Lalovic K., Stupar A., Mihajlov V., Pencic D. (2023) Opportunities for the Transformation of Border Towns into Sustainable Systems in the Republic of North Macedonia by Applying the Integral Theory, Sustainability 15(17), 12713, https://doi.org/10.3390/su151712713 
  • Simic, I., Stupar, A., Grujicic, A., Mihajlov, V., Cvetkovic, M. (2022) The Transformation of Dorćol Power Plant: Triggering a Sustainable Urban Regeneration or Selling the Heritage? Sustainability, 14, 523, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010523 
  • Trgovčević, F., Stupar, A., Ivanović, M., Susman, R. (2020) Toward Flood Resilience in Serbia: The Challenges of an (Un)Sustainable Policy. Sustainability, 12(17), 7228, https://doi.org/10.3390/su12177228 
  • Stupar, A., Jovanović P, Vojvodić Ivanovic J. (2020) Strengthening the Social Sustainability of Super-Blocks: Belgrade’s Emerging Urban Hubs. Sustainability, 12(3), 903, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/903 
  • Stupar, A., Mihajlov, V., Lalović, K., Colic, R., Petrovic, F. (2019) Participative Placemaking in Serbia: The Use of the Limitless GIS Application in Increasing the Sustainability of Universal Urban Design, Sustainability, 11(19), 5459, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/19/5459 
  • Djukić, A., Stupar, A., Antonić, B. (2018) The consequences of urban policies in socialist Yugoslavia on the transformation of historic centres: the case study of cities in Northern Serbia. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 33(3 – September), 555-573, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-018- 9612-7 
  • Stupar, A., Mihajlov, V., Simic, I. (2017) Towards the Conceptual Changes in Architectural Education: Adjusting to Climate Change, Sustainability, 9(8), 1355, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1355/htm 
  • Simic, I., Stupar, A., Djokic, V. (2017) Building the Green Infrastructure of Belgrade: The Importance of Community Greening, Sustainability, 9(7), 1183, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/7/1183/htm 
  • Stupar, A. (2015) Cold War vs. Architectural Exchange: Belgrade beyond the confines?, Urban History, 42, 4, 662 – 645, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/cold-war-vs-architectural-exchange-belgrade-beyond-the-confines/401349D5BDFD5F05F2D6444230DE0C07[Text Wrapping Break] 

Selected chapters 

  • Stupar, A., Čamprag, N., Doğan, E., Polić, D. (2023) 2021/22 European Capital of Culture: Inclusive Culture-Led Branding of Novi Sad?. In Čamprag, N., Uğur, L., Suri, A. (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transformations. A New Paradigm for Inclusive Cities, Springer, 149-166. 
  • Box, J., Boon, R., Kwanda, T., Stupar, A., Tilt, J., Vásquez, A. (2020) The role of targets and standards in delivering urban greenspace for people and wildlife. In Douglas, I., Anderson, P.M.L., Goode, D., Houck, M.C., Maddox, D., Nagendra, H., & Tan, P.Y. (Eds.).The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, 2nd edition, Routledge, 943-971. 
  • Stupar, A., Mihajlov, V., Simić, I. (2020) (R)urban Synergy vs. Climate Change: The Impact of ICT Networks on the Process of Adaptation and Mitigation. In Krstić–Furundžić, A., Djukić, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism, IGI Global, 261-279 
  • Djukic, A., Stupar, A., Antonic, B. (2018) Chapter 8: The Orthogonal Urban Matrix of the Towns in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia: Genesis and Transformation. In: Carlone, G., N. Martinelli & F. Rotondo (Eds.), Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning, IGI Global,128-156 
  • Stupar, A., Antonić, G. (2016) Cold War Displacements: Belgrade Memories from a Non-Aligned Realm, In Pizzi, K., M.Hietala (Eds.) Cold War Cities, Cultural Memories Vol.4, Peter Lang: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 97-126 
  • Stupar, A., Grujicic, A., Grujicic, B.(2016) Toward the Urban Transition of Kragujevac: A New Life for Old Urban Generators, In: Ryser, J. (Ed.) Cities Save the World. Let ́s Reinvent Planning. The Hague: ISOCARRP, 606-616 
  • Stupar, A. (2014) Ideology or fashion? The contemporary city and the quest for power, in Mako, V., Roter Blagojević M, Vukotić Lazar M. (Eds.), Architecture and Ideology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 172- 184 
  • Stupar, A. (2014) Towards the Ultimate E3-topia: Scrambling the Energy Efficient, Eco- friendly and Electronic Urban Future, In Bamme, A, Getzinger, G. and Berger, T. (Eds.): Yearbook 2012 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology & Society, Munchen, Wien: Profil Verlag GmbH, 129 -150