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New Directions of Sustainable Development of Settlements in Slovenia

General degradation of the living environment is the basic reason for the formation of new directions on the international level, which are based on different, nature and environment friendly, environment sustainable settling of the space.
On the basis of sustainable development's general directions of the space, new, also detailed valuable and normative definitions for organizing settlements, have been formed. The urban and architectural work in them is directed to planning accordant with given natural possibilities and in accordance with the typically formed and identically built structures ( the entire protection of building heritage) .
The studies and detailed analyses have shown that comprised standards of the developed-in-the-past building culture, consist of numerous valuable characteristics, which are in accordance with the principles of constant development, their consideration is also important for the preservation of the more and more important differencies between the existing diverse cultural environments.
Within the complex of the expert groundwork for the drafting of the new dokuments, basic research into building structures, following international guidelines and with the aim of improving the quality of life and of preserving the cultural diversity and identity of our habitat.
The results of studies of existing building structures in the diverse cultural landscapes of Slovenia are therefore the identification of the qualitative values of these building structures (values and criteria) - those values which, characteristically and identifiably and in their specific interaction, jointly create the identity of a specific habitat. The results of studies are prepared in the way, that can be used for environmental planing or for further researches in space.