David Bole, PhD | ZRC SAZU

Education
BSc in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2003
PhD in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2008

Research fields

economic geography – cultural industries, economic transformation of the city and the countryside, urban geography – small industrial towns, post-industrialism, post Fordism, transport geography – daily mobility and land use

Other activities

member of The Executive Committee and a secretary of the Association of Geographical Societies of Slovenia (2004 – 2007),
member of the Steering committee of the biannual symposium “Slovenian regional days” (2009 onwards),
member of the editorial board of the ‘Regional development’ series (2009 onwards),
member of the editorial board of the ‘Geography of Slovenia’ series (2008 onwards),
member of the editorial board and the main editor for Regional planning of the international journal Acta Geographica Slovenica (2016 onwards),
guest editor of the Regions magazine (Regional Studies Association 2009, 2012),
guest editor of the Special Issue in the Urban Science journal (MDPI, 2019, 2020)
member of the International editorial advisory board at the Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis (2018– …)
guest co-editor of the Georhythm series (2015, 2016) and guest editor of the CAPACities series (2020),
guest co-editor of The Urban Book Series, Springer Publishing (2020)
member of scientific board of the international conference Geographical research and cross-border cooperation within the lower basin of Danube (2014).
member of scientific board of the CEE Regional Studies Association Conference (2022),
member of the HERA Public Spaces International Review Panel (Humanities in the European Research Area)

Selected presentations and lectures

The resilient small industrial town in Europe. Lecture at the EUGEO conference 2021, online event from Prague, Czechia, july 2021.
Industrial culture as an agent of social innovations in industrial towns. Case study of Velenje, Slovenia. Lecture at the 5th Geography of Innovation (GEOINNO) conference in Stavanger, Norway, january 2020.
The European Industrial Town: Understanding (post)industrial transitions through local narratives. Lecture at the EURA-UAA »City Futures IV« conference in Dublin, Ireland (June 2019).
Assessing and planning the human settlement system in Slovenia: a preliminary report. Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) in Graz, Austria, April 2016
Geography of daily mobility in post-socialist European countries: evidence from Slovenia. Association of American Geographers in Chicago, USA, April 2015
Emerging transport land use changes in post-socialist urban environment: example of Slovenia. Lecture at IV. EUGEO congress 2013, Rome, Italy.
SY_CULTour: synergy of culture and tourism. Invited lecture at the international conference Cultural values and tourism development in rural areas 2013, Heraklion, Greece.
Studying daily commuting network in Slovenia : one country, one metropolis? Lecture at the Cities without limits 2011 Conference, Kobenhavn, Denmark.

Special mention of the Europa Nostra jury in the category ‘Education, Training and Awareness-Raising’ for the project ‘Cultural heritage and the development of rural community Črni Vrh’ (awarded by the European Commission, 2015).

Melik award for best young scientist (awarded by the Association of Slovenian Geographers, 2011)

Bole, D. 2008: Ekonomska preobrazba slovenskih mest (Economic transformation of Slovene cities). Geografija Slovenije 19.
Bole, D., Gabrovec, M. 2009: Dnevna mobilnost v Sloveniji (Daily mobility in Slovenia). Georitem 11.
Bole, D., 2010: Sekundarna gospodarska središča v Ljubljani : analiza stanja in presoja načrtovanega razvoja (Secondary business districts in Ljubljana : analysis of conditions and assessment of planned development). Urbani izziv 21-1.
Bole, D. 2011: Changes in Employee Commuting: A Comparative Analysis of Employee Commuting to Major Slovenian Employment Centers from 2000 to 2009. Acta geographica Slovenica 51-1. Ljubljana.
Bole, D., Gabrovec, M. 2012: Daily commuters in Slovenia. Geografski vestnik 84, 1.
Urbanc, M., Nared, J., Bole, D. 2012: Idrija : a local player on the global market. Locality, memory, reconstruction : the cultural challenges and possibilities of former single-industry communities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bole, D., Gabrovec, M. 2014: Geography of Daily Mobilities in Post-Socialist European Countries: Evidence from Slovenia. Mobilities in socialist and post-socialist states, Eds.: K. Burrell, K. Hörschelmann. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bole, D. 2015: Transformation of Transportation Land Use in Slovenia. Georitem 25. Založba ZRC.
Kozina, J., Bole, D. 2016. Creativity at the European periphery : spatial distribution and developmental implications in the Ljubljana region. Creative industries in Europe: drivers of new sectoral and spatial dynamics. Ur.: Chapain, C., Stryjakiewicz, T. Springer International Puclishing.
Bole, D., Šmid Hribar M., Pipan P. 2017. Participatory research in community development: a case study of creating cultural tourism products. AUC Geographica 52-2.
Kozina, J., Bole, D. 2018. The impact of territorial policies on the distribution of the creative economy: tracking spatial patterns of innovation in Slovenia. Hungarian geographical bulletin 67, 3.
Bole, D., Kozina, J., Tiran, J. 2019: The variety of industrial towns in Slovenia: a typology of their economic performance. Bulletin of Geography, Socio-Economic Series 46.
Bole, D., Kozina, J., Tiran, J. 2020: The socioeconomic performance of small and mediumsized industrial towns: Slovenian perspectives. Moravian geographical reports 28-1.
Nared, J., Bole, D. (eds) 2020: Participatory research and planning in practice, (The urban book series). Cham (Switzerland): Springer Open.
Nared, J., Bole, D. (urednika) 2020: Participatory research and planning in practice, (The urban book series). Cham (Switzerland): Springer Open.
Kozina, J., Bole, D., Tiran, J. 2021. Forgotten values of industrial city still alive: What can the creative city learn from its industrial counterpart? City, Culture & Society, 25.
Bole, D. 2021. ‘What is industrial culture anyway?’ Theoretical framing of the concept in economic geography. Geography Compass, 15-11.
Tiran, J., Bole, D., Kozina, J. 2022. Industrial culture as an agent of social innovation: reflections from Velenje, Slovenia. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

All publications (COBISS)

Transport land use in Slovenia (podoktorski_raziskovalni • 01. july 2011 - 01. april 2014)
CATCH_MR (aplikativni • 01. january 2010 - 31. december 2012)
KvLUR (trzni_projekt • 15. november 2013 - 15. january 2014)
SY_CULTour (aplikativni • 01. march 2011 - 01. march 2014)
WIKIAlps (aplikativni • 01. october 2013 - 31. december 2014)
RURBANCE (aplikativni • 01. july 2013 - 30. june 2015)
Cultural landscapes caught between public good, private interests and politics (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. october 2014 - 30. september 2017)
SMART-MR (interreg • 01. april 2016 - 31. march 2021)
MEDFEST (interreg • 01. november 2016 - 31. october 2019)
Bright Future (raziskovalni • 01. march 2017 - 01. march 2020)
Places that don’t matter? Socio-economic transformation of industrial towns in Switzerland and Slovenia (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. november 2020 - 31. october 2023)
Geography of Slovenia - national research programme (research programme • 01. january 2015 - 31. december 2021)