Ognen MARINA 1 , Divna PENCIC 2 URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF SKOPJE FRAGMENTED CITY – LEGACY OF HISTORY Abstract Process of spatial and urban planning intensified at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century as a result of modernization of the Ottoman Empire, emergence of new geo-political context within the region and influences of new concepts and models of urban form. Differences between conceptual and real transformation of the urban policies and plans at one end and transformation of urban fabric at the other, reflects the frequent shifts in political order and the inconsistency of the political elite in process of realization of established concepts and ideas in urban planning. Historic cycles in urban planning of Skopje and different level of realization of conceptual and real transformation within the urban fabric of Skopje resulted in fragmented plan of the city. These series of conceptually and morphologically different fragments of urban form coexists in time and space as a collage of complex urban strata that creates the unique image of the city. Key words: Urban plans, Transformations, Urban form, Fragments 1 MSci, assistant, University „St. Cyril and Methodius“, Faculty of Architecture, Partizanski odredi 24, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, e-mail: ognenmarina@gmail.com 2 MSci, assistant, University „St. Cyril and Methodius“, Faculty of Architecture, Partizanski odredi 24, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, e-mail: divnapencic@gmail.com