Professional paper

The Unbearable Easiness of City Renewal

Barbara Verlič Dekleva ; Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana

Abstract

This text deals with the problems of social environment production and decision-making concerning space-usage and with defining the phenomenon of »urbanity« in the works of different authors (Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Park, etc.)
The principal theme in this paper is the issue of city-centre restoration which is elaborated by presenting different approaches to restoration, their advantages and disadvantages. The authoress indicates that monopoly and domination, growth, development, interests and power all influence the approach to city-centre restoration. In her opinion, in Yugoslavia, neither market-economy demands requiring city-centres of a business-like character, nor the demands of the city dwellers for improving the quality of living in city-centres are prevalent. What dominates is »privatization« as an expression of political monopoly which produces spatial one-dimensionality and monofunctionalism making them the main characteristics of city-centres in many Yugoslav cities.

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Hrčak ID:

155396

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155396

Publication date:

31.3.1990.

Article data in other languages: slovenian croatian

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