The number of debates about the modernization of spatial planning in Slovenia has only recently risen. Some new planning views on the politics of spatial development in theory as well as in practice ...arepresented in this article. Spatial planning has over the past decades modified some of its most relevant areas. With this, the instruments, directives and different steps focused more on the three most important areas : the handling of the growth of the urban system net and determining the settlement structures, the planning of proper usage of the surface with environmentally builtin components of lasting development and the planning of transport and economic infrastructure. With the growing europeization and internationalization, spatial planning underwent some changes right at the core at the beginning of the 21st century. There is a growingurge of equalizing spatial planning on the European level and forming a more active model on the implementation level. Project orientation, new cooperational and moderational models, which are trying to realize all the goals and transfer them into the real world are put right in the centre. With the help of new instruments it is possible to realize all the abstract-based goals, which are written in the researchdocuments and strategies, which more precisely
