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Dr. Dijana Simonović is assistant professor of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of the University of Banjaluka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dijana gained her doctorate at the University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in 2014. Her PhD title is: „Research into the Possibility of Rehabilitation and Upgrade of the Urban Identity of Banja Luka as a Landscape City through Urban Regulation“. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Urbanism Technical University Graz, Austria in 2003. She is conducting a postdoctoral researching on regulation of urban landscape at the Department for Urban and Territorial Planning, University of Granada. She is author of monograph “Landscape Cities: A Comparison of the Development of the Urban Identities of Banja Luka and Graz” (2010). She deals with urban form, urban landscape, cultural landscape and processes of their regeneration through urban morphological research, from perspective of the cultural aspect. Dijana realized two international scientific projects as a collaborator on the project. She is editor of three scientific monographs of national and international significance.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
