MANAGING DIVERSITY IN THE POST-SOCIALIST CITY – GLOBALISATION, SPACES OF CONSUMPTION AND EXCLUSION OF LOCAL URBAN CULTURES
MANAGING DIVERSITY IN THE POST-SOCIALIST CITY – GLOBALISATION, SPACES OF CONSUMPTION AND EXCLUSION OF LOCAL URBAN CULTURES

Summary/Abstract: During the last 15 years, Slovenia passed through various phases of economic and socio-political transformation. Each of them has left its contribution in the organisation of urban space. Focusing on the “dialectic” of central and edge city development, the text will first expose the transformations made to the city centres in the light of new consumption activities introduced after the formal change of socio-economic system in Slovenia. Secondly, the text will explore to what extent spaces in the city centre have been standardised and privatised by global economic entities that evicted local urban cultures from the central areas. While describing the emergence of new spaces of consumption, special attention will be paid to socio-spatial transformations, i.e. the upgrading of transport network that inevitably influenced the way individuals perceive the shopping activity in the post-socialist period. Finally, the text will analyse some of the linkages formed between the new spaces of consumption and the changes in lifestyles.

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