Participation in environmental decision making have become common standard. However instrumental PR communication techniques dominate and support a reduced, goal-oriented action only. An analysis revealed that numerous communication techniques in a way inhibit substantial, argumentative rationality in environmental and spatial affairs.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28603229
Focusing on the “dialectic” of central and edge city the text exposes the transformations made to the city centres in the light of new consumption activities introduced after the formal change of socio-economic system in Slovenia. Secondly, the text explores to what extent spaces in the city centre have been standardised and privatised by global economic entities that evicted local urban cultures from the central areas. Special attention is paid to socio-spatial transformations. Finally, the text analyses linkages between the new spaces of consumption and the changes in lifestyles.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28633437
The paper tries to give an insight into the processes of socio-spatial transformation in the post-socialist city. The processes of renovation helped the inner parts of the city to raise the level of consumption and to get some vibrancy back. Attention is given to the wider socio-cultural context. The text includes empirical evidence collected from research projects that were performed at the Centre for Spatial Sociology, University of Ljubljana.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28811357
Anti-urbanity in Slovenia also reflects attitude towards some spaces and groups. It seems that there is a gradual displacement of nonprofit cultural spaces from a city centre going on. The diminshment of diversity has a number of questionable effects for. Our assumption – that there is a diminishment of (sub)cultural diversity because of effects of anti-urbanism is analysed through a series of theoretical concepts, which will be supplemented with data from various researches.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28633437
The basic purpose of research was to adequately present and interpret i.e. explain the urban socio-spatial trends. The report gives us an introspection at what the could be the potential impacts on the structure of economic and social activities in the city centre of Ljubljana if specific transport measures are to be fully implemented. The majority of interpreted data in the report are also represented in the visual (graphic) form.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29302621