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ix Acknowledgments This book has been many years in the making and owes a great deal to many people. I wish to extend my deep gratitude first and foremost to all the urban planners who agreed to share their personal experiences with me: Aleksandra Banović, Milica Jakšić, Branislav Jovin, Ljubomir Lukić, Vladimir Macura, Vesna Matičević, Vera Paunović, Ružica Petrović, Ljubdrag Šimić, and Borislav Stojkov. I am indebted to the Institut za noviju istoriju, in Belgrade, for hosting and assisting me during my stay. I also wish to thank Marta Vukotić-Lazar, Antonije Antić, Miodrag Ferenček, Dragan Arbutin, Andrija Dodić, and other kind souls at the Urbanistički zavod Beograda for going beyond the call of duty. I owe much thanks to Branko Bojović, Ksenija Petovar, Sreten Vujović, Ljubodrag Dimić, and Predrag Marković for their very valuable advice. Darko Ćirić of the Muzej grada Beograda deserves a very special thank you for his assistance. I extend my thanks also to Dubravka Pavlović and her colleagues at Juginus and to the helpful staff at the Istorijski arhiv grada Beograda, the Arhiv Jugoslavije, the Narodna biblioteka Srbije, the Narodna in univerzitetna knjižica in Slovenia, the Republički zavod za statistiku in Serbia, the Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Srbije, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Goran Antonić, Dušan Bajagić, Miloš Ković, Lana Marković, Slobodan Selinić, Igor Tchoukarine, and other friends who enriched the year I lived in Belgrade both personally and professionally. x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In writing my dissertation, I received precious guidance from my mentor Ivan Berend, as well as Arch Getty and Janice Reiff. In journeying from dissertation to monograph, I have benefited immensely from numerous conversations with and detailed feedback from Veronica Aplenc, Eszter Bartha, Daria Bocharnikova, Ljiljana Blagojević, Tanja Conley, Heather deHaan, Emmanuela Grama, Patrick Patterson, the late Mark Pittaway, Vladimir Kulić, Emily Gunzburger Makaš, Theodore Sandstra, Kimberly Elman Zarecor, and many others I fear I am omitting. Bill Nelson deserves credit for the excellent maps he recreated from originals that could be quite hard to read. I am deeply grateful for the financial and institutional support I have received in completing this project. The research on which this dissertation is based was supported by a predissertation fellowship from the Center for European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and by a doctoral fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute allowed me to deepen my understanding of housing policy in socialist Yugoslavia. The preparation of the manuscript for publication was in part financed by a publication grant and other funding from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Finally, this journey has been made possible by the unflagging support of my parents, Jacques and Layla Le Normand, and my husband, Theodore Sandstra . A very special thanks to Ted and our wonderful son, Marco, for your love, patience, and good humor while I devoted many long hours to completing this endeavor. ...

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