Although the term “genius loci” has been known and used since ancient civilizations, it was considered almost unimportant in a technically industrialized and competitive world. However, the pursuit ...of a more dignified life for the human communities has again revealed its undeniable importance as an inner cohesion force, applied in partial territorial-social structures. In an integrating world, it may be a useful tool to transform historically created hierarchical structures into more humanly functional fractal structures. This possibility is documented in the study by regional examples from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Although the term “genius loci” has been known and used since ancient civilizations, it was considered almost unimportant in a technically industrialized and competitive world. However, the pursuit ...of a more dignified life for the human communities has again revealed its undeniable importance as an inner cohesion force, applied in partial territorial-social structures. In an integrating world, it may be a useful tool to transform historically created hierarchical structures into more humanly functional fractal structures. This possibility is documented in the study by regional examples from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
A hundred years that have passed since the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 has offered a number of considerations and reflections on new developmental visions of human communities not only in a ...Czech and Slovak, but also in European and worldwide context. The paper outlines the need to change the causal perception of reality in favour of strengthening the studies of contextual relations, the need to change the simple evidence of phenomena to study their influence on social cohesion and, last but not least, the need to transform hierarchical structures into a more progressive fractal structure.
A hundred years that have passed since the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 has offered a number of considerations and reflections on new developmental visions of human communities not only in a ...Czech and Slovak, but also in European and worldwide context. The paper outlines the need to change the causal perception of reality in favour of strengthening the studies of contextual relations, the need to change the simple evidence of phenomena to study their influence
on social cohesion and, last but not least, the need to transform hierarchical structures into a more progressive fractal structure.
People are attributing specific meanings to individual places (regions) by their activity and thus they are visualizing their life ideas. In this way genius loci (genius regionis) is developed in ...human consciousness. This social value of the landscape, generated by the generational accumulation of human experience, forms the central part of the potential of places and regions. It is well known that the activation of the socio-economic potential of the country, including genius loci (genius regionis), contributes even to the development of cross-border cooperation. An example may be the fact that (after more than one hundred years) a genius locus of the Eastern Front of the World War I has become the generator of the development of cross-border cooperation in the Slovak-Polish-Ukrainian region.
Complexity of development of relations which originate on the European continent makes the need for a comprehensive approach to the organization and administration of the territory. The existing ...preference of loyal managers with their economic and operational focus to assessing reality comes into conflict with the need to analyze the complementary relations conditioning the potential of the area. The need for highly knowledgeable personalities with moral credit is
particularly evident in the creation of fractal relationships between functionally and semantically established local, regional and global structures.
Dynamic social processes of the beginning of the 3rd millennium are linked with a myriad of fundamental changes in the behavior of human entities. The concept of linear causal perception of social ...relations is not considered to be sufficient any more. The need for complexity in the perception of evolutionary intricacy of current processes is associated with the need to understand the functional interdependence of autonomous and heterogeneous aspects of sociopolitical values. By recognizing layering of autonomous processes in time-space levels we are approaching the concept of fractal organization of society.
Searching for the solutions of societal crisis at the beginning of the 3rd millennium has been increasingly associated with the new paradigmatic perception of the reality of the world. This is ...closely related with an emphasis on the study of contextual relationships that would enable preservation of the integrity of the human community. One of the priorities of this process is the need for societal transformation of the perception of the relationship between egoism and altruism.
On the 1st November 1993, the Treaty on European Union, known as the Maastricht Treaty, entered into force. Thus, institution of European citizenship was introduced for the first time. Every citizen ...with the citizenship of any member state became a citizen of the European Union. The resulting civil rights were later deepened by the Amsterdam Treaty. During the past twenty years the perception of human identity itself has changed due to globalization. It is no wonder that at the beginning of the 21st century the importance of citizenship in context of identity is not appreciated. This study outlines what needs to be done to make European citizenship provide to citizens of member states of the European Union much more than what is apparent from their legal anchoring. The author proceeds from the assumption that European citizenship is closely linked with civil territorial identity. Its strengthening broadens possibilities of participation of people in public life and thus contributes to the development of civil society. The stronger one perceives genius loci (genius regionis) and the human connection with the space, the greater is his ability and willingness to be open to the world.
