Split 3 is a city unit in Split.
History
During the second
half of the 20th century, the population of the city of Split grew
at an incredible rate. For this reason, there is a need for new
housing, which is why in 1968 a tender was announced for the
construction of a new part of the city, which in 1969 won the
urbanists from the Urban Institute of Slovenia - Vladimir Music,
Marjan Bezan and Nives Starc with the idea of building a new
settlement Split 3. The project included the construction of
residential streets with a larger street, blocks of tall residential
buildings with apartments facing south overlooking the sea, and
low-rise buildings for individual housing. On the ground floors, and
especially at intersections and squares, the idea was to build
business premises for various purposes, and between the streets to
create green areas for recreation in which there would be
kindergartens and schools. In addition, a space was designed for
shops, business premises, banks, embassies, health center, hotel,
theater, concert hall, cinema, museum, gallery, library, archive,
etc. Unfortunately, during its construction, the JNA, as the most
powerful investor, met is its housing needs, and Split also received
the organization of the Mediterranean Games in 1979, so it directed
its potentials towards this obligation, while Slovenian urban
planners returned to Ljubljana, leaving the Split III project
without any author's urban supervision. The consequences were that
the urban planning institute lost its real job, and was satisfied
with individual, smaller projects, the number of employees was
reduced, and to this day it has not recovered. However, although not
fully completed today, Split III still lives in the idea of
population and is used in public discourse among its inhabitants,
but also much more widely, in the media, mentioned at professional
gatherings, etc. The project was analyzed by experts around the
world. books, articles, reviews were written, reviews were written,
and a film was made. Award-winning Croatian architect Luka Skansi
called the project Diocletian's Palace of the 20th century.
Today's streets that include this project are the streets of Ruđer
Bošković, Marin Getaldić, Juraj Dobrila, Rikard Katalinić Jeretov,
Faust Vrančić, the part of Matica hrvatska Street that passes
through this part of the city and Kroz Smrdečac.