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Factors of Spacial Organization of Cultural Activities: The Example of Croatia
Laura ŠAKAJA
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This article develops those tendencies in cultural geography
which look upon elements of space as representatives of
socio-cultural processes and phenomena. The main thesis is
that the historical, social, geographical and other factors
influencing spacial arrangement of institutions (in this case
cultural institutions) are represented and recognized in a
network of these institutions. Factors influencing the spacial
organization of cultural activities are brought into relation in
this article with their representatives (i.e. the results of their
activity) in a network of cultural institutions. Three groups of
factors have an impact on the development of cultural
infrastructure: macrosocial factors, microsocial factors and
elements of the geographical environment. Macrosocial factors
– in the first place the institution of politics, and in some
periods also the institution of religion as well as economic
and technological prospects of the society – influence the
establishment of cultural institutions and some of their varieties.
Microsocial factors – education, employment in certain sectors
of the economy, residence in cities or the country, material
wealth – determine the population’s life-style and have an
effect on the cultural infrastructure through the consumption
of cultural commodities. The geographical surroundings,
affecting population density or the intensity of communication,
create conditions and prerequisites for the development of
cultural centres. In addition to the interpretational approach,
well-established in cultural geography, quantitative methods
are also used in the article, which enable the registration of
spacial features of the cultural network. Through digitalization
of data and its manifestation in the program ArcViewI, many
cartographic correlations were carried out helping determine
the impact of certain factors on the network of cultural institutions.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
20715
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Datum izdavanja:
1.1.1998.
Posjeta: 1.858 *