»As inhabitants of a suburban area, we often feel neglected«

Urban and infrastructural development of Ig, 1961–1989

Abstract

After 1965, Ig, like many other major suburban settlements in the Ljubljana Basin, gradually began to lose its rural character. That was the time of rapid deagrarianization and gradually increasing living standard, which introduced changes in the daily reality and lifestyle of Ig’s inhabitants, including their aim to urbanize the settlement and provide it with modern infrastructure and public services that would meet their needs better and improve the quality of their lives. The author presents the development of Ig between 1961 and 1989, which was very sluggish due to insufficient funding. The growing budget deficit facing the Municipality Ljubljana Vič–Rudnik had an especially devastating impact on rural areas as the most disadvantaged in developing and maintaining the existing infrastructure.