Problems of the social and spatial transformation of the Rakova Jelša local community in Ljubljana

The essential characteristics of social spatial disparities are the causes in the structure of the space, which stem from the inconsistency between processes of industrialisation and urbanisation. For such a synthetic representation, which we will want to examine in more detail, we relied primarily on theoretical considerations and already made empirical research into illegal masonry. The specificity of the settlement Rakova Jelša is characterised by a complete congruence with the proposed theory of analysis of illegal buildings. Namely (i) due to its utopian dimensions, the formal housing system does not perform its function satisfactorily, and (ii) this results in the parallel development of complementary informal housing practices, including illegal housing construction. Even before we meet the central part of the research, we conducted preliminary interviews with the aim of feeling the social atmosphere. However, it often touched upon our predetermined hypotheses that one of the main causes of the failure of spatial regulation is precisely the disregard of differentiated spatial practices. The purpose of a specific type of research — the case study was not only to find out why the legal housing system in no way makes it possible to meet housing needs for certain categories of residents. Rather, in order to deal with black construction as a necessary and unavoidable consequence of a formal housing system. And present possible ways of solving the problem and at the same time find the mobilisation potential of black builders in legal forms of housing care.社会空间差异的核心本质，源于空间结构层面的驱动因素——该因素由工业化与城市化进程的不协调所催生。针对这一待进一步深入探究的综合阐释框架，我们主要依托理论推演，并已针对违规砌筑（illegal masonry）开展实证研究。拉科瓦·耶尔沙（Rakova Jelša）聚居区的独特性，在于其与本文提出的违建分析理论完全契合。具体而言：其一，因理想化的制度设计脱离实际，正规住房体系无法有效履行其住房保障职能；其二，这一缺陷催生了互补性非正规住房实践（informal housing practices）的并行发展，其中便包含违规住房建设活动。在正式开展研究核心内容之前，我们已先行开展初步访谈，旨在感知当地的社会氛围。但访谈内容往往触及我们的预设假说：空间规制（spatial regulation）失效的核心成因之一，恰恰是对差异化空间实践的忽视。本项特定研究（即案例研究（case study））的核心目标，绝非仅为探明正规住房体系为何完全无法满足特定群体居民的住房需求；恰恰相反，本研究旨在将违建视作正规住房体系的必然产物加以剖析，同时提出该问题的可行解决路径，并挖掘违建从业者以合法形式参与住房保障工作的动员潜力。