Although an open information flow in decision-making are widely recognised, it is however not difficult to notice that such ideal conditions are quite often virtual wishful thinking. Instrumental communicative techniques present urban planning as democratic and transparent, but in fact, this technology inhibits substantial argumentative rationality. The fundamental goals are not questioned at all, as a consequence, the crisis of legitimisation processes is deepening. The management of urban and spatial development is used as a practical example of such reduced rationality
COBISS.SI-ID: 29474397
The Limits of Growth and the Limits of Freedom; Globalisation – An Open Sociological Agenda; The Aprioristic and Participatory Forms of Physical Planning; Urban Planning Between “Expert” and “PR Intervention” Urban-Rural Partnership and Regional Development: Case of Ljubljana's Urban Region; The Sociability of Individuals among Territorial and Networked Organisations of Society; Regional Innovation Potential – Dilemmas And Open Questions; The Role of Automobilisation and “Destructive Competitiveness” between Slovenian Cities and the Hinterland etc.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29815645
The article analyses the development of traffic infrastructure in Slovenia and its influence on spatial and socio-economic development. The unilateral modernisation of specific traffic infrastructures leads to non-productive, destructive competitiveness between cities and the hinterland and influences the degradation of less “networked” spaces. Special attention is paid to the analysis of automobilisation in Slovenia which in the period since 1991 became the dominant mode of transport, with effects on the economic and social systems of Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29482077
Analyses of urban change in Ljubljana, its growing consumption in space. Comparing cities which belong to the same central EU geopolitical space should thus not only aim to look for similarities among them, but also try to understand particularities and unique socio-spatial conditions, which differs each city from the book according to its size, political history, geographic location, etc.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30233437
Starting points for our analysis of actual socio-spatial problems of Ljubljana’s urban region are concepts of new localism and regionalism and concept of advanced city infrastructure. Analysis show to us that key obstacles for regional development are cynical and opportunistic view of local (political) leaders on regional cooperation and grown urban-rural conflict. Regional development of Ljubljana’s urban region in the network of european regions is not possible without (re)building of regional identity based on regional networks of developmental actors.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29470045