In accordance with its green environmental strategy as well as past efforts to obtain and now promote the title European Green Capital 2016, the City of Ljubljana has been in recent years intensively developing its cycling infrastructure and encouraged cycling. An analysis of cycling in the context of the politics of urban spatial planning provides a starting point for understanding the importance of bicycle as a means of transport, a business opportunity, and an actor of socializing events and social change; the impact of city politics on the development of creativity is simultaneously disclosed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39276845
The aim of the article is to show how museums and galleries as representatives of cultural industries go beyond regular activities to encourage creativity, support cultural diversity and open access to cultural goods. The article analyses two decades of efforts in Slovenia's museums and galleries to include the blind and visually impaired in their activities in the context of cultural policy and legislative demands. This museum practice today not only contributes to better accessibility of culture to vulnerable groups and their general inclusion, but also yields more positive museum experiences for all segments of visitors, widens the horizon of museum workers, and sensitizes the general public to the position of vulnerable groups in society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1839238
The article is the result of the project in the framework of the CBC Slovenia - Italy 2007-2013, but touches the central theme of the postdoctoral project: social, cultural and environmental factors are the key contributors to the development of the area although they only indirectly affect economy, but the outcomes of such effects are mostly more long-term and sustainable than direct economic results. Considering the meaning of multilingualism and cultural heritage in tourism development (tourism being part of cultural industries), the author analyses the projects in the territorial cooperation program between Slovenia and Italy that deal with culture and specifically cultural heritage and encourage visits to the border region. The most strategically important is culinary heritage which is developed mostly for economic purpose while the identity dimension of heritage is by the rule overlooked.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38242861