Spatial planning, conflicts, and participation

We engage in participatory research and planning. We study processes of climate change adaptation, equitable access to services, multi-level spatial governance, and mismatches between the functions, use, and perception of space. We are also interested in the conflicts that accompany these processes, as they reveal different interests, needs, and understandings of space. Questions of quality of life are also an important part of this field.

Projects

• TuneTo15 - Adapting the 15-minute city concept to functional urban areas in the context of socio-spatial disparities and transition conflicts (January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027)
• TuneOurBlock - Transforming urban quarters to human scale environments: applying superblock concepts for different urban structures (international research project • May 1, 2021 - July 31, 2024)
• TranStat - Transitions to Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow (applied project • November 1, 2022 - October 31, 2025)
• ESPON TNO 19-22 (international capitalisation project• 2. November 2019–31. Oktober 2022)
• The Atlas on the Quality of Life in Slovenia (international research project • 1. julij 2021–11. oktober 2021)
   

Publications

• Goluža, M. 2026: Konflikti pri načrtovanju prometne infrastrukture. Akterji, vzroki in pristopi za reševanje. Geografija Slovenije 41. 
• Goluža, M., Bole, D. 2025: From nostalgia to disdain: the contested role of industrial heritage narratives in legitimising post-industrial urban transformation. Urban Research & Practice, 1–23. 
• Tiran, J., Grigsby, J., Gebhardt, V., Kirby, N., Leth, U., Lorenz, F., & Müller, J. (2025). Superblocks between theory and practice: insights from an international e-Delphi process and urban living labs in Vienna and Berlin. Urban Research & Practice, 18(4), 622–644.
• Goluža, M. 2023: Conflicting interests in transport infrastructure planning : theoretical approaches and practical implications of conflict management in planning processes. Young Geographers: showcasing research contributions in geography. Key challenges in Geography. 
• Goluža, M. 2022: Konflikti v prostorskem načrtovanju : kritični pregled teoretičnih pristopov k zmanjševanju konfliktnosti. Geografski vestnik 94-1.
• Goluža, M., Šubic Kovač, M., Kos, D., Bole, D. 2021: How the state legitimizes national development projects : the third development axis case study, Slovenia. Acta geographica Slovenica 61-2.