Ljubljana kot “novo” evropsko mesto išče razvojne strategije za korak naprej v evropskemu okolju. Arhitektura in urbanizem bi morala njeno ambicijo podpreti, predstaviti nove vrednosti ter načine načrtovanja, programiranja, menedžmenta ter gradnje evropske Ljubljane. Mestna uprava in strokovnjaki za razvoj so angažirali številne lokalne in mednarodne moči z nalogo ustvariti vizijo nove Ljubljane, ki bi morala kulminirati s predstavitvijo novega splošnega urbanističnega načrta ter vseh strateških projektov za naslednje obdobje, ko bo mogoče v polni meri izkoristiti tudi kohezijske sklade Evropske unije. Ljubljana ima od lanskih županskih volitev tudi novo mestno upravo, na čelu katere sta agilni župan Janković in podžupan Koželj, avtoriteta na področju arhitekture in urbanizma. Prav Janez Koželj je v študiji o razvoju Ljubljane iz leta 2004 naštel skoraj štirideset projektov velikega merila za razvoj mesta, od katerih se razen obvoznice, nekaj državnih ustanov in BTC-ja niti eden ni uresničil. Vprašanje, ki se je pojavilo leta 2005, posebej po primeru Kolizej, je več kot očitno: “Zakaj se Ljubljana ne razvija, zakaj se velika pričakovanja po vstopu v Unijo niso izpolnila in kje so razlogi za tovrstno stanje?”
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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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