The Past and Future of Our Settlements

Abstract

With evolution of mankind cities changed their shapes, function and definition. Todays understanding of an urban settlement is not legally formalized. The definition is demographic and statistical criteria. City is a complex public phenomenon of spatialu and timemanifestation which takes and functions. It could be defined as geographic, economic, sociologist criteria. Functional connecting of cities Serbia is one the tools for achieving more balanced development. Neglectiting of rural area of Serbia importance to small centresin determining the territorial organization urban i rural centers.Serbia is one of the most centralised countries in Europe. Which has now started the decentralisation process.

Keywords

• Jovan Cvijić
• Serbia
• the cities
• demographic-statistical criteria
• functional connecting
• decentralisation proces