»Urban expansion, overcrowded roads during rush-hours, and motorways flooded with endless chains of lorries, may bewilder an occasional viewer. The current form of capitalism, spinning around a family house and a car, production by order and free global market had a globalising effect on the city; the moto of the present time – mobility -  of goods, capital, even people – has become dominant over all other issues. Everything needs to be in constant circulation. This is the result of the development of capitalism, giving rise to monstruous infrastructure that has a detrimental effect on cities, turning them into road junctions.« (Vincent Doumayrou, Le Monde diplomatique, April 2010)

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As I write this blog, the newspapers in Slovenia are again full of news on political corruption scandals, sexual abuse in church and school institutions, the collapse of the health insurance system, and inhuman treatment of Slovene, and above all foreign workers. The Mayor of our capital is collecting »donations« from major investors in return for the licence to build. Is it anything better at your place, in Montenegro?

At the same time, in the evening, I'm reading an outstanding masterpiece by a Hungarian poet and thinker, Bela Hamvas, who says that apart from one or two occasions, when his own life was concerned, he never read papers at all. I read them every day and I must confess I always feel defeated, for this is about my life, too.

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Čitate prvu rečenicu onoga što treba da postane prvi u nizu pisanih doprinosa, tokom narednih petnaest mjeseci, za vrijeme kojih, u svojstvu građanina Slovenije (pravni status), arhitekte (profesionalni status) i permakulturiste (objašnjenje ovog pojma uslijediće u daljem tekstu) namjeravam da koristim vid bloga, kao što mi je Biljana (EXPEDITIO) sugerisala, kako bih vas ohrabrio, pozvao i, vrlo izvjesno, u isto vrijeme i zaintrigirao da uzmete učešće u diskusiji o uslovima života i njegovim mogućim alternativnim oblicima, imajući u vidu napete lokalne i globalne uslove naše trenutne egzistencije. Budući da sam predstavnik NVO Cornucopia, Instituta za prostor i kulturu iz Slovenije, i partnerske organizacije koja je u projektu „Benefit Living“ zajedno sa Expeditio i Academica, jedan od zadataka koji ne mogu da izbjegnem je da vas informišem kao građanin Evropske unije (štagod to bilo), o najnovijim dostignućima i trendovima EU na polju uređenja prostora, niskoenergetske izgradnje, moderne arhitekture i održivog razvoja.

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