Review article
BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND REALITY:PRE–SUPPOSITIONS OF THE QUALITY OF LIVING IN URBANIZED MILIEU
Fedor Kritovac
; Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia, Zagreb
Abstract
Starting from the contemporary situation in Croatia, and in relation to certain significant indicators of the present state and the tendencies in design, change, and operationalization of environmental paradigms of human settlements (from theoretical–level conceptions of ecology and internationally established development strategies to the examples of satisfactory practice on local levels), the author discusses some characteristics of legislative regulation, the role of local communities and media, reactions and behavior of inhabitants, and gives some pre–suppositions on the reasons of the present and predictable situation. It is concluded that present state in Croatia, especially in concentrated urbanized milieus, has not yet achieved directed and coordinated approaching of relevant environmental paradigms of settlements as demands and expressions of the quality of living in architecturally and physically planned settlements.
Keywords
ecology of settlements and building; environmental paradigms; quality of living
Hrčak ID:
141440
URI
Publication date:
15.4.1996.
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