Review article

The quality of everyday life in space

Dušica Seferagić

Abstract

Using newer literature, the author analyses contemporary changes in global space. On the one hand space is "global" (global theories) and on the other "local" (local theories). Flexible accumulation demands rapid adaptation in production, labour and space. If it is to participate in global changes a country's space must be basically urban, although this is, of course, not enough. Restructuring in capitalist lands, where both endogenous and exogenous factors of change are at work. Croatia is a country in transition. The author considers that Croatia must fultill basic developmental preconditions if it is to catch the "train of development". One of them is the uniform spatial development of basic qualities of every day life. This can be expressed through several synthetic indicators, for example: degree of equipment, accessibility, possibility of choice, level of information, security, and the possibility of decision-making on alI levels: from the state as a whole, regions, settlements, through the residential community, to the flat or house itse". The character of flexible accumulation leaves little time for concern with backward regions. Thus a level of basic development is a precondition for entering the currents of global development.

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Hrčak ID:

30783

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30783

Publication date:

30.4.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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