This paper presents a new index for determining the shape of land parcels. Parcel shapes are usually represented descriptively (i.e. ribbon-shaped, rectangular, irregularly shaped), which is useless ...for automated distinguishing between parcel shapes or for determining and distinguishing between the patterns formed by parcels. Thus, we developed a Parcel Shape Index (IOP) to describe parcel shape characteristics, and then tested it in the test area of Gorenje pri Divači to analyse selected fields – as irregular blocks, enclosures, continuous strips, and furlongs. We found that IOP allows for a differentiation of parcels according to their shape as well as parcel patterns formed due to the individual types of dividing arable land.
Abstract The paper focuses on developing the green infrastructure concept in the emerging strategies of urban resilience and sustainability in response to the multiple challenges facing European ...cities, including Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. In this context resilience is concerned with politically challenging questions about assumptions of equilibrium and the ability of humans to control the environment. Urban resilience can provide a common framework for multidisciplinary action by municipalities and other stakeholders, highlighting the impact of planning urban eco-systems with the development of green infrastructure to meet environmental and spatial challenges. This paper identifies some of these strategies and activities in Ljubljana on the basis of research conducted under the EU FP7 TURAS project (2011-2016). In the inner-city neighbourhood of Tabor, there is already a broad range of collaborative planning and community participation activities (both top-down and bottom-up) towards developing (public and private) green infrastructure. This diverse locality has been identified as a “bridging” area where urban resiliency strategies for green infrastructure development are considered as a tool for implementing urban revitalisation projects in order to sustain viability and improve the quality of life for local residents and other citizens in times of limited financial resources. The research in Tabor shows that developing green infrastructure in keeping with the urban resilience concept is not sufficiently integrated in official spatial planning and municipal action due mainly to institutional and social obstacles.
The changing of urban land use is the key indicator of spatial processes at work. The only systemic data source in Slovenia that can be employed to monitor land use changes is the Register of ...Existing Agricultural and Forest Land Use. The hypothesis that the Register is not suitable for monitoring urban land use changes was tested by comparing the data in the “built-up and related land” category for 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011, and 2013. The analysis was carried out at the level of Slovenia, and the results were interpreted in relation to small testing areas in NE Slovenia. We found that the methodology of data capture varied to such a degree that the data fail to reflect the actual changes in urban areas.
This article presents various indices for describing the characteristics of land use and monitoring land-use change in various periods. These indices were either developed by the authors or were ...derived from landscape metrics. They were calculated for five selected sites of agricultural land (sites) for the time when the Franciscean Cadaster was introduced and for 2015. A comparison of the values of the indices revealed the changes in the selected sites, and the conclusions present an opinion on their suitability. It was found that the numerical values of the indices reflect visually detected changes in the graphic representation of land use, and they could therefore be introduced into the system for monitoring land-use changes.
Work at home and work from home are becoming the subject of interdisciplinary research in the current social conditions. Slovenia, as a post-transition country, has specific experience in terms of ...its regulation, as the former socialist and later transition period were relatively tolerant of various forms of work at home. The article presents the results of research aimed at studying current normative provisions for the organization of work at home, its actual spatial and program scope, and its correlation with building typology and morphology. Using a descriptive research method and by analyzing existing databases in the GIS environment, we found that work at home is a very extensive phenomenon in Slovenia. Despite the effective instruments in the fields of spatial planning, public administration, tax system, and employment legal relationships, its scope is mainly a consequence of historical tolerance, as this form of work has been legally organized and desirable for decades. We found that various urban characteristics did not significantly affect its occurrence in the past. The differences are reflected only in the extent of business activities that can be carried out in residential areas and differ according to the distance from urban centers. In order for the regulation of work at home to become even more efficient in the future, it is necessary to define more detailed criteria, especially in terms of its program regulation and monitoring of the spatial situation.
The paper presents the results of a study to define the current size and location of workplaces and business entities in the area. The research was conducted in three stages. In the first step, the ...analysis of the size and distribution of workplaces according to the municipalities in the Republic of Slovenia for the 2007-2019 period was carried out. In the second step, the size and distribution of business entities in the space were examined. In the third step, a more detailed analysis was carried out in the test area of the Osrednjeslovenska statistical region, based on: the location in Ljubljana Urban Municipality (hereinafter referred to as MOL), in the municipalities directly bordering MOL and in the other municipalities of the Osrednjeslovenska statistical region. At this stage we also focused on the sector of activity of business entities. A strong upward trend in workplaces was found in only a few major urban centres along the motorway junction, especially in MOL. The same applies to the concentration of business entities. All this suggests that the existing practice of planning activities in physical space does not follow the strategic orientations of spatial acts, which could better control the spatial processes and their consequences.
Exact data about the location and area of vacant building land have been a major issue in several Slovene municipalities. This article deals with automatic vacant building land delineation. The ...presented methodology is based on the object-based classification that derives the land cover layer from orthophoto and laser scanning data. With post-processing and data cleaning in GIS, we create the vacant building land layer. The methodology was tested in study areas in the Municipality of Trebnje. The results were compared to the vacant building land layer generated by visual interpretation (manual vectorisation) . We found that the presented methodology of automatic delineation of vacant buildings can speed up the processing and lower the cost of manual vectorisation and, in particular, data updating but we cannot completely replace manual work.
The paper focuses on developing the green infrastructure concept in the emerging strategies of urban resilience and sustainability in response to the multiple challenges facing European cities, ...including Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. In this context resilience is concerned with politically challenging questions about assumptions of equilibrium and the ability of humans to control the environment. Urban resilience can provide a common framework for multidisciplinary action by municipalities and other stakeholders, highlighting the impact of planning urban eco-systems with the development of green infrastructure to meet environmental and spatial challenges. This paper identifies some of these strategies and activities in Ljubljana on the basis of research conducted under the EU FP7 TURAS project (2011-2016). In the inner-city neighbourhood of Tabor, there is already a broad range of collaborative planning and community participation activities (both top-down and bottom-up) towards developing (public and private) green infrastructure. This diverse locality has been identified as a "bridging" area where urban resiliency strategies for green infrastructure development are considered as a tool for implementing urban revitalisation projects in order to sustain viability and improve the quality of life for local residents and other citizens in times of limited financial resources. The research in Tabor shows that developing green infrastructure in keeping with the urban resilience concept is not sufficiently integrated in official spatial planning and municipal action due mainly to institutional and social obstacles.
Pa vendar je že v prvi polovici dvajsetega stoletja (Burgesov model urbane rabe prostora iz leta 1925) postalo jasno, da je za učinkovitost urbanih sistemov ključnega pomena prav strateško ...načrtovanje dejavnosti v prostoru (Herala, 2003) in njihova prometna dostopnost. Ceprav je neposreden vpliv prikazanega stanja najprej viden na obremenjenosti prometne infrastrukture, pa je težava bistveno kompleksnejša in jo je treba obravnavati širše, na kar bomo opozorili v zaključku ter predlagali nekatere možne sistemske rešitve za decentralizacijo delovnih mest in poslovnih subjektov. 2METODE DELA IN PODATKI Raziskava je bila izvedena na podlagi javno dostopnih (SURS, 2020a; SURS, 2020b) in drugih zbirk javnih podatkov (AJPES, 2019), ki smo jih obdelali s programskim orodjem (ArcGIS). Najprej smo prikazali število delovnih mest po občinah RS za leto 2019 (SURS, zadnji razpoložljivi podatki), nato pa dodali trend spreminjanja števila delovnih mest v občini za celotno obdobje 2007-2019 oziroma za obdobje, odkar je posamezna občina nastala. Trend smo razvrstili v šest (6) razredov po Jenksovi metodi (metoda poišče mesta največje zgostitve podatkov), ki jih lahko opredelimo kot: močna rast, rast, šibka rast, šibek padec, padec, močan padec. V drugem koraku smo preverili obseg in razporeditev poslovnih subjektov po prostoru na podlagi podatkovne baze vseh registriranih poslovnih subjektov v Sloveniji za leto 2019 (AJPES, 2019), ki vključuje tudi lokacijo registracije vsakega poslovnega subjekta.
...very evident is also the demographic growth of these cities their municipalities, (less present in the surroundings of Maribor) and at the same time the rural areas are becoming increasingly less ...populated (Nared et al., 2019), as is the general motorisation of the population (more than 554 cars/1000 inhabitants; SORS, 2021), an inadequate or inefficient public transport system (Tiran et al., 2021), an inadequate transport infrastructure and, consequently, inefficient traffic regulation systems. The survey (PNZ) conducted in 2016 also points to a relatively low percentage of public transport use, as among the respondents an average of only 8% of daily commuters use means of public transport and 74% of them use a car. ...despite the construction of the motorway junction in recent decades and the continuous improvement of urban transport systems, we are still confronted with congestion in transport infrastructure, particularly at the level of regional centres (MzI, 2018), which is reflected in increased traffic flows as well as suburbanisation (Dhval et al., 2021) and the resulting negative impacts on the health and environment, which is also a consequence of the development of economic activities that did not follow the guidelines of sustainable spatial development (Kušar, 2012, p. 116). In many cities, the pace of demographic, economic and administrative expansion as well as other influences such as natural geography on the one hand, and knowledge and governance on the other, are outpacing the financial and spatial capacity to develop the accompanying infrastructure, and are therefore having a major impact on the pace of development and the distribution of spatial activities, as well as on land-use planning (Gu and Chen, 2017). ...despite the implementation of the principles of sustainable development (ESDP, 1999), after two decades we are still confronted with the consequences of inconsistencies between the strategic orientations, the outlined objectives and the actual spatial development. The decentralisation of workplaces and the possibility to work from home (Stern, 2021) will make it possible to reduce daily commuting to towns and cities, while reducing the negative impact of transport.
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