Prijedlog Direktivne regulatorne osnove Zagreba iz 1953. jedan je od najiščekivanijih dokumenata grada Zagreba u poratnom razdoblju. Njegova su rješenja trebala utjecati na svakodnevni život građana, od prometnih rješenja, pozicioniranja industrije odnosno radnih mjesta, do lokacija stanovanja i rekreacije. O urbanističkom se prijedlogu raspravljalo u zatvorenim krugovima Narodnoga odbora grada Zagreba, iz kojih su onda informacije puštane u javnost te su objavljivane u sklopu javne rasprave. Javna se rasprava sastoji od potpisanih i nepotpisanih članaka u kojima se izvještava i/ili komentira tijek izrade Direktivne regulatorne osnove ili se komentira/kritizira njezin sadržaj. Tekstovi su objavljivani od ožujka 1953. do listopada 1954. u dnevnom listu Vjesnik, tjedniku Republika te stručnim časopisima Građevinar i Čovjek i prostor. Stručni dio javne rasprave odnosi se na kritiku pojedinih segmenata Direktivne regulatorne osnove 1953. Inženjer Milko Sinković daje kritiku željezničkoga čvora, ing. Božidar Vizjak komentira cestovni promet, a inženjeri Artur Minichreiter i Elimir Svetličić analiziraju prijedlog regulacije rijeke Save. Generalnu kritiku urbanističkoga prijedloga Direktivne regulatorne osnove 1953. iznosi ing. Petar Senjanović. Analiza obuhvaća i anonimne tekstove autora N. M.-a i M. V.-a objavljene u časopisu Čovjek i prostor, kojima je opisan tijek nastanka Direktivne regulatorne osnove 1953. i kritika prijedloga. The proposition of the Directive Regulatory Basis of Zagreb from 1953 was one of the most anticipated documents of the city of Zagreb in the post-war period. Its solutions were supposed to have an effect on the everyday life of citizens, from traffic solutions, the placement of industry, i.e. workplaces, to residential and recreation locations. The urban proposition was discussed within closed circles of the People’s Committee of the city of Zagreb from which information was released to the public and published as part of the public debate. The public debate consisted of signed and unsigned articles reporting and/or commenting on the drafting of the DRO (Directive Regulatory Basis) in 1953 or commenting on/criticizing the content of it. The texts were published in the period from March 1953 until October 1954 in the daily Vjesnik, the weekly Republika, as well as the specialized journals Građevinar and Čovjek i prostor. The expert part of the public discussion refers to the criticism of certain segments of the Directive Regulatory Basis 1953. The engineer Milko Sinković criticized the railway junction, engineer Božidar Vizjak commented on road traffic, whereas the engineers Artur Minichreiter and Elimir Svetličić analysed the proposition relating to the regulation of the Sava River. A general critique of the urban planning proposition of the DRO 1953 was presented by the engineer Peter Sanjanović. The analysis also includes the texts of authors N.M. and M.V. published in the journal Čovjek i prostor, which describe the process of the development of the DRO 1953 and the critique of the proposition.