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Formal spatial planning procedures tend to neglect the importance of socio-cultural elements that are inherently present as part of 'soft infrastructure' and are constituted from traditions, lifestyles, wishes, and the routines of individuals that form a local community. In contrast, the concept of cultural sustainability is closely linked with the socio-cultural heterogeneity of a local community. The inability of the formal spatial planning system in Slovenia to adequately engage with the social wishes and resistances of residents is highlighted in situations involving problematic confrontations between the members of the dominant 'common culture' and marginal groups. Two cases from Ljubljana are presented: the stigmatization of the Fužine neighbourhood and the problematic of mosque construction. The cases illustrate that the 'majority' of residents tend to perceive many subcultural representations in space as foreign, non-indigenous elements that could disrupt the everyday routine in a local community. They show how the deficiencies of the current spatial planning system in Slovenia are unable to address challenges posed by contemporary society's cultural, social, and economic transformations and can work quite the opposite way – by increasing the complexity (and level of difficulty) for possible implementation of measures supporting cultural heterogeneity in planning practice.

Intro -- Prologue -- References -- Acknowledgments -- General Remarks -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- The Spatiality of Creativity -- The Value of Social Creativity for the Development of a Creative Ecosystem -- References -- 2: Tokyo as a Matured City: Torn Between Global Change and Local Lives -- Tokyo's Economy and Social Development since 1986 -- Tokyo's Creative Economy Model -- Tokyo at the Crossroads -- The Blind Spot of Tokyo's Creative Urban Regeneration Policies -- References -- 3: Conceptualizing Urban Creativity: Searching for Traces of Tokyo's Urban Development -- The Role of Social and Cultural Heterogeneity for the Development of Urban Creativity -- Creativity Hidden in Plain Sight: The Importance of Intangible Sociocultural Elements for the Formation of a Creative Milieu -- From "Places" to "Spaces": The Standardization of Socially and Culturally Unique Places -- Soft Spatial Factors of the Creative Ecosystem -- References -- 4: Going Small Matters: The Role of Small Creative Actors in Tokyo's Creative Ecosystem -- Tokyo's Creative Ecosystem in Transformation -- Creative Precarity as Part of Tokyo's Creative Ecosystem -- Understanding the Social Aspects of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Tokyo's Small Creative Actors -- Breathing Everyday Creativity: A Prelude to the Analysis of Local Creativity in Tokyo -- Introduction to the Case Studies -- References -- 5: Going Local 1: Creative Actors, Spatial Resources, and Social Networks -- The Case of Hikifune: Top-Down Approaches that Standardize Everyday Creativity -- Creative Practices and Hikifune -- Interpreting the Case of Hikifune: The Lack or Invisibility of Creative Actors Due to a Fragmented Spatial Situation -- The Case of Kyōjima: Creativity as a Source of Urban Revitalization -- Creative Practices and Kyōjima.

Local urban development is not determined by a collection of non-political and essentially technical measures prepared by professionals and civil servants in municipalities, but in fact strongly depends on the political nature of policy decisions and organised local interests. The planning of local urban development is, therefore, significantly influenced by political decisions based on the promises set out by political parties in their programmes. Thus, the direction of local development and the dynamics of urban growth cannot be fully understood without a thorough understanding of the views presented in party programmes. This paper aims to map the differences in Slovenian parliamentary party preferences related to local urban development across the political spectrum as well as over time (from 1990 to 2014). By implementing computer-assisted content analysis of 96 party programmes and election manifestos conventionally recognised as thematic text analysis, we identified an alarming image of the political landscape of Slovenia concerning topics related to local urban development. The analysis revealed that the majority of parties utilise local urban development concepts on a declarative level, with most dimensions of sustainable urban development being virtually absent. Adapted from the source document.

Despite being coined by international forums and promoted chiefly by international/supranational organisations and clubs, sustainable development is a concept that in essence rests on and is largely determined by the local level. The local level's primacy in terms of introducing the principles of sustainability is openly stipulated by Agenda 21, thus providing the impetus for local sustainable development strategies - Local Agenda 21. As prime standardised artifacts, local sustainable development strategies represent an excellent insight into the capacity of an individual community to achieve a sustainable future and deal with potential challenges. In this article, the authors have analysed four such visions of a sustainable future for two city and two minor Slovenian municipalities, in order to examine their capacity to develop into sustainable communities. The analysis showed that, the transition period in Slovenia has left a significant impact on development planning and its consequences have yet to be fully resolved. Adapted from the source document.