Paper short abstract:

Prishtina changed her face and became a real city during socialist time, even though the project of modernism in Prishina from many is seen as being unfinished. Today, in post socialist conditions the city couldn't absorbe in the best way all the changes in political, economic and social aspect

Paper long abstract:

Since 1947 when Pristina gain the executing role of political and administrative center of Kosovo we all witnessed drastic changes in the name of progress, unity, fraternity and freedom, in the name of modernization. At the late ' 60s the construction of this new identity of socialist Pristina was seen vis a vis the construction of "the new socialist men" as a project which could hopefully lead to a successful solution of the national issues in Kosovo and Yugoslavia in general. After '99 Pristina again faced the same picture as after WWII. The destruction of the city in both cases was more after than during the wars. Different was only the approach and actors. After '45 the private turned into public and the destruction and development were done by the "state". Today, the people are doing both, demolishing and developing at the same time in a space where public is erasing and everything is privatizing more or less. The crises of economic sector and the political collapse of Yugoslavia created such conditions where no new architectural style was launched in 25 years. After the war, "Urgent architecture" produced in a kind of reconstruction phase by internationals in the city will be replaced very soon by "turbo architecture" phase, as no one wants to be affiliated with modern architecture, art and heroes of that time. Again new names of the streets with new landmarks will resplace the old ones