Quality of living environment in selected Slovenian cities, 2014

The main purpose of the research was to measure the quality of living environment in selected urban areas of selected Slovenian cities. at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century in a subjective way, that is, from the point of view of valuation by the inhabitants there. The quality of the living environment has been assessed in a total of 15 neighbourhoods of different morphological types in five Slovenian cities: Ljubljana, Maribor, Koper, Jesenice and Grosuplje, illustrating five different types of cities in terms of size, socio-economic characteristics, position in the urban system and natural-geographical characteristics. The study was conducted in the old town. centers and selected areas of mostly single-family houses, older block neighborhoods and modern multi-family houses. On the way to the realization of the purpose, we set out the following Objectives: definition of the living environment, its spatial levels and main contents, assessment of the quality of individual contents of the living environment, assessment of the quality of the living environment as overall, disclosure of factors in the assessment of the quality of the living environment, identification of potential migratory mobility, identification of the living preferences of the population and evaluation of the importance of living environment as one of the contents of the quality of life. The author conducted the analysis in selected neighborhoods.