Globalizacija vpliva na mehiška mesta in ustvarja nove urbane strukture. Z oblikovanjem novih državljanskih praks globalizacija spreminja odnose, ki jih posamezniki vzpostavijo do določenega območja. ...Na podlagi multidisciplinarnega pristopa avtorja teoretično analizirata nove razmere v mehiških starih mestnih jedrih, ki so jih povzročili izzivi, povezani z njihovo razglasitvijo za območja svetovne dediščine. Pri tem uporabljata teoretični konstrukt, s katerim predstavita določene vidike realnosti v mehiških mestih, ki se nanašajo na oblikovanje demokratičnih in participativnih državljanskih praks. Pojav analizirata na podlagi dveh teoretičnih izhodišč: (a) procesa spreminjanja v območje svetovne dediščine (to je turizma in gentrifikacije) in (b) teorije družbenega kapitala. Ugotovitve kažejo, da nove razmere izražajo prostorsko, časovno in gospodarsko preobrazbo območja dediščine. V starih mestnih jedrih politični akterji in ustanove spodbujajo centralistični, nadnacionalni in mestni konservatorski razvoj. Nastaja urbanizem, ki daje prednost ohranjanju v korist turistov ter škodo zadovoljstva, uporabe in sodelovanja lokalnega prebivalstva. Poleg tega procesi izključevanja in gentrifikacije razjedajo družbeno tkivo in ogrožajo državljanstvo.
Open Public Spaces play a key role in visibility of cities, especially public spaces near rivers. This is the reason rivers in the cities represent their natural wealth while simultaneously being ...their development potential. They are strong economic development engines, engines of growth and creators of the urban fabric. Public open riverside spaces and their different forms depend on geomorphological features of the river body as well as the impact of the wider environment. The topic is important, as the quality of riverside spaces and their development potential was previously insufficiently taken into account. Today these are the spaces of cities, which experience enriched transformation. For the purposes of this research, the theme of the importance of urban waterside areas was verified in six European cities. The paper presents in detail the importance of this topic in three cities: Ljubljana, Ptuj and Gradee. They recognize points of contact in relation to the riverside area. The debate on urban riverside areas is related to two areas that are selected as a spatial framework for research: the immediate area of the river corridor (KUV - corridor of urban watercourse) and the wider riverside space (NUV- urban river embankment). Public space within the NUV region has great and specific spatial poten dal, which was confirmed among users of public space through surveys conducted in those areas. Surveys also showed a low level of general awareness of citizens about the possibilities offered by riverside areas and regulation of public space around it, as well as explore ways to enrich this space.
The opening of internal borders among the European Union member states has not only evoked complex socio-economic processes, but also produced new spatial development potentials. This is especially ...important for the areas located close to the national borders that were until recently regarded as underdeveloped and peripheral. Conversely, the European Union sees them in a completely different light, as key elements in the process of integration, economic, and social cohesion. Consequently, the processes of cooperation and networking have been triggered on different levels, whereby the deterritorialisation of the new economic, social, cultural and spatial relations occurs. The article describes the issue of spatial development of cross-border areas, which are setting up new development conditions by opening the borders. This topic is presented by the case study of spatial development of the area stretching along the axis between two regional centres, Maribor (Slovenia) and Graz (Austria), in the past subjected to numerous demographical, economical and geopolitical changes. In this regard, two viewpoints of spatial development of the area are exposed: the first one explores the influence of the national border on the development of the research area, while the second one reflects contemporary trends of dispersed urbanization along the infrastructural corridor extending between both regional centres, the most indicative among them being the emergence of new urban nodes.
