Open AccessPopulation and spatial development of settlements in Ljubljana Urban Region after 2002
Author(s) -
Dejan Rebernik
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.42.75-93
Subject(s) - urban sprawl , geography , human settlement , urbanization , economic geography , population , settlement (finance) , rural settlement , population growth , immigration , suburbanization , urban planning , rural area , economic growth , demography , archaeology , political science , business , civil engineering , metropolitan area , economics , sociology , finance , law , payment , engineering
The paper is analysing spatial and population development of settlements in Ljubljana Urban Region after 2002. On the basis of population change we determined the main urbanisation processes in the region. To the end of 1970s fast population growth was due to immigration from rural parts of Slovenia and the rest of Yugoslavia. In the 1980s and 1990s deconcentration of population within the region with intense suburbanisation were the main processes. After 2002 the fastest population growth was in in the rural hinterland. Dispersed settlement pattern with all negative implications of urban sprawl is thus characteristic.