The inadequate legislation on multi-family housing management in Central and Eastern European post-socialist countries calls for the exploration of additional determinants of building renovation on ...the level of the community of residents in a building. To this end, we present here an analytical framework called the mediated-Renovation Decision (m-RD) model for simultaneously testing the direct and indirect effects that neighbourly relations, cooperation of the co-owners’ representative with the co-owners, and acceptance of the building co-ownership concept have on co-owners’ willingness to invest in building renovation. The model is based on assessments made by 325 co-owners’ representatives from multi-family buildings in Croatia. The results show that the quality of neighbourly relations affects the co-owner’s willingness to renovate not directly, but indirectly through the level of their acceptance of the building co-ownership concept. The other indirect effect of neighbourly relations – through the level of the representative’s cooperation with co-owners – was not significant. The demonstrated analytical value of the m-RD model advocates for more complex studies of the role of neighbourly relations in collective decision-making and actions in the housing domain.
U Zagrebu pored brojnih javnih kulturnih ustanova i niza drugih kulturnih organizacija u neprofitnom i profitnom sektoru djeluje i 15 javnih centara za kulturu. Njihov je nastanak i kasniji rad ...odreðen specifičnim kulturnim politikama koje su se razvijale nakon Drugog svjetskog rata. U tranzicijskom razdoblju javni kulturni centri ostaju bez jasne pozicije i uloge u kulturnom sustavu te se stoga ovaj rad bavi pitanjem kako voditelji tih institucija konstruiraju uloge kulturnih centara. Provedeni su polustrukturirani intervjui u devet kulturnih centara, a tematskom je analizom izdvojeno šest tema vezanih za ulogu i svrhu tih institucija u Zagrebu: dostupnost kulture, stvaralaštvo i posredovanje, prvi ulazak u kulturu, (re)produkcija zajednice, javni servis te koristan ostatak. Prve su četiri teme vezane uz kulturne paradigme izvrsnosti, demokratizacije kulture i kulturne demokracije i pokazuju da nisu nestale, nego još uvijek imaju djelatnu ulogu. Posljednje dvije teme signaliziraju krizu kulturnih centara u tranzicijskom i posttranzicijskom vremenu koja se tiče društvene baze te pozicije u okvirima javnih politika. Ti uvidi omogućuju nam razumijevanje lokalnih reakcija na društvene, kulturne i političke promjene te nam otkrivaju kako se kulturni centri nose s problemom legitimacije i pronalaženja svrhe u novom kulturnom sustavu.
