With coming of Austria-Hungary, and somewhat earlier, started out in Bosnia and Herzegovina to build rail and road traffic, thus creating conditions for establishing new urban centers, extension and modernization of old. With the advent of industrialization, which began during the Ottoman period, the process urbanization has accelerated and getting new species. Gradually many urban settlements and urban centers acquire European features while not losing the Muslim-oriental character of old village. With that in the cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina emerged double urban structures, which gives them specificity in appearance, spatial and functional structure.
-In the period after World War II a very strong industrialization and dynamic development.
tertiary activities have caused very intense urbanization in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The consequences of the establishment of new urban centers (Novi Travnik, Ilijas Banovici et al.) And.
the expansion and demographic growth of the old cities. With the old to the new neighborhoods.
locations raise new planning built neighborhood.
-Urbanization in the modern sense is developing intensively in Bosnia and Herzegovina until after World War II. It is qualitatively and quantitatively different from earlier types of urbanization. The sudden grow of of cities and urbanization agricultural areas caused: .
â-‹ urban industrialization and electrification;.
â-‹ depopulation of rural areas and settlements;.
â-‹ expansion of the transport network and.
â-‹ developing modern production. .
-According to demographic indicators in 1991 in Bosnia and Herzegovina had a population of 1.7 million people, or 37% of the total population in urban areas, with average growth of the urban population of 2.8% per year. Also, it is estimated that 45% population lives in urban areas (based on estimates from 2004), with an average annual growth of urban population in the last 15 years of 0.