In paper we analyse the posttransitional performance of the working environment in the Municipality of Koper. In the analysis we find that the majority of planned development strategies in the nineties did not materialise because of the dominance of political system over working environment. Such situation has led to depletion of politically positive charge of the new regionalism. Regional economies also failed to take advantage of the new regionalism and the development of initial comparative advantages of the region.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2250963
The article deals with the Slovene public's perception of the issues of migrations, integration of immigrants, and multiculturalism. It derives from the concept of integration as a twoway process of intercultural communication, which generates a new quality for achieving social cohesion. The views of Slovene public opinion are arranged under three migration topics: 1. general attitudes towards migrations and migrants – migrants as a threat or an essential labour market corrective, 2. positioning Slovenia in contemporary globalised migration trends, and 3. integration policies as an instrument for shifting internal social borders.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32882989
How did the processes of automobilisation of Slovenia effect the urban consumption spaces in the Slovenian coastal towns? The article is based on analysis of various databases and researches that shows the change in the hierarchy according to location of urban spaces of consumption in the Slovenian coastal towns. In detail are anaylsed the purchasing patterns of new ‘car consumers’ who make decisions whether to visit the store on the grounds of its accessibility to the car transport. The role of consumption is in this context displayed in two ways - as a necessary element of condition for successful economic development and as a potentially harmful process of mass consumption that slowly deconstructs the existing social structure in the coastal cities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2251219
Cities have become increasingly autonomous economic and political actors which actively respond to the pressures and opportunities of globalisation. Consequently, the urbanmanagement of any particular city is often based on the assumption that the city can improve its position against rival cities by efficiently managing its strategic resources and promoting its presumed advantages. Though such an approach to urbanmanagement may help cities to improve their global competitiveness and the quality of their residentsʼ everyday life, it can sometimes result in negative consequences at the local level, thus actually narrowing the development prospects of the cities in the end. This article discusses urban management against the backdrop of the competitive urban policy in Barcelona and Seoul, and compares the local consequences of urban renewal in both cities. Based on a comparison of the two cases of urban renewal, 22@ Activity District in Barcelona and the Cheonggyecheon restoration in Seoul, this article argues that, in conditions of competition among global cities, even very different approaches to urban management and urban renewal may result in similar consequences at the local level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31219549
The attempts to build Islam religious and cultural centre (mosque) in Ljubljana open a lot of »glocal« theoretical as well as practical questions. Problems in implementing multiculturalism in apparently open, urban, secular societies are usually interpreted as minor temporary troubles, motivated by not jet surmounted resistance to other, otherness. Doubts in this interpretation are expressed in the text by presenting two cases which reveals that building »alien« religious buildings trigger deeply rooted archetypical fears, which are hardly controlled by rather simple modernist regulative repertoire.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34827821