The article concentrates on emerging relationships between physical characteristics of urban open spaces and their uses. It draws on a combination of behaviour mapping and geographic information system (GIS) techniques - as applied to urban squares and parks in two European cities, Edinburgh (UK) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) - to reveal common patterns of behaviour that appear to be correlated with particular layouts and details. It shows actual dimensions of effective environments for one use or more of them and shows how design guidance can be arrived at, based on the particulars of the case study sites and cities. In addition, the value of this article is in exploring GIS, a tool that is currently irreplaceable in spatial analysis and planning processes for urban areas, as a detailed analytical and visualisation tool that helps to describe inner structure of places revealed by behaviour patterns.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2394563
Paper introduces the short overview of territorial impact assessment approach development and later on represents results of the national target research project Monitoring and territorial impact assessment of sector policies which was finished in year 2008. The authors describe the method of territorial impacts assesment which was developed by Slovenian research team as an upgrade of existing methods, and summarize the results of approach testing on the case of national energy programme, as adopted in year 2004
COBISS.SI-ID: 2404803
The chapter consists of the representation of Slovenian planning system, its development and the evaluation of the state of arts. The author shortly introduces the development of the system from independence on, the legislative framework of the system and to larger extent the actors active in the system, their role and knowledge which add to the functioning of the system and its outcome. Monograph, in which the chapter is published, is one of the first planning books entirely devoted to the planning knowledge and systems of the EU new member states, in which the author illustrates the situation in the Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2385603