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Actors of Social Changes in the Urban Space of Croatia
Seferagić Dušica
; Institut za društvena istraživanja, Zagreb
Sažetak
The text is mostly about the actors of social changes in the urban space of Croatia which is used as an example. The author looks at globalization, transition and neoliberalism and how they affect the urban space, i.e. cities. For most authors (Giddens, Castells, Soja, Ritzer, Sassen...) globalization is the world networking with the local variants (glocalization). Among different types of actors, the author chooses Bassand’s (2001) classification into political, economic, professional/expert and civil society actors. The first three actors form a triangle because they are connected in communication, whereas the fourth actor is a weak opposition which is nevertheless becoming more and more present during the birth of civil society and democracy. Special attention is paid to urban planning (and city planners as actors) which should, by definition, promote the public benefit, respect the public interest and legislation of a democratic society. The autor shows that our reality is different and wonders whether we are dealing with “the death of urbanism”, “new urbanism” in the given social context or “negative urbanism”, that is, “anti-urbanism”. The social context is Croatia.
Ključne riječi
space; city; actors; globalization; neoliberalism; social changes in urban space
Hrčak ID:
20663
URI
Datum izdavanja:
20.2.2008.
Posjeta: 3.463 *