Ljubljana kao “novi” europski grad traži razvojne strategije za iskorak u europskom okruženju. Arhitektura i urbanizam trebali bi poduprijeti tu ambiciju predstavljajući nove vrijednosti i načine planiranja, programiranja, manegementa te izgradnje europske Ljubljane. Gradska uprava i developeri su angažirali mnoge lokalne i međunarodne snage na zadatku stvaranja vizije nove Ljubljane, koja bi trebala kulminirati predstavljanjem novog generalnog urbanističkog plana te svih strateških projekata za naredno razdoblje, kad će biti moguće u punoj mjeri koristiti i kohezione fondove Europske unije. Ljubljana od nedavno ima i novu gradsku upravu na čelu s agilnim gradonačelnikom Jankovićem i dogradonačelnikom Koželjem, autoritetom na području arhitekture i urbanizma. Upravo je Janez Koželj u studiji o razvoju Ljubljane iz 2004. godine nabrojao gotovo četrdeset projekata velikog mjerila za razvoj grada, od kojih se, osim zaobilaznice, nekoliko državnih institucija te BTC-a, ni jedan nije realizirao. Pitanje koje se 2005. godine pojavilo, osobito nakon slučaja Kolizej, bilo je više nego očito: Zašto se Ljubljana ne razvija, zašto se velika očekivanja nakon ulaska u Uniju nisu ispunila i koji su razlozi takvog stanja?
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Ljubljana, as a “new” European city, is searching for development strategies to move toward a European milieu. Architecture and urban planning should uphold this ambition, presenting new values and methods for planning, programming, “management” and construction of a new European Ljubljana. The city government and developers engaged many local and international experts in the task of creating a vision for a new Ljubljana. This should culminate in the presentation of a new general master plan and all strategic projects for the upcoming period, when it will be possible to use EU cohesion funds to the fullest. Recently a new city government assumed office in Ljubljana, headed by the agile Mayor Jankovič and Deputy Mayor Koželj, an authority on architecture and urban planning. It was Janez Koželj who, in a development study for Ljubljana produced in 2004, listed almost forty large-scale projects for city development, of which none were implemented, with the exception of a bypass, several public institutions and the BTC shopping centre. The question that arose in 2005, particularly after the Kolizej case, was more than obvious: why is Ljubljana not developing, why were the great expectations after Slovenia joined the European Union not fulfilled, and what were the reasons for such a state of affairs?
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