Spatial planning and public interests in a pluralist society : Prostorsko planiranje in javni interesi v pluralisti ni dru bi

The paper addresses the notion of public interest in spatial planning, particularly the redefinition of public interest within the context of neoliberal urban politics and planning. It tries to demonstrate that instruments of neoliberal urban planning change and reduce the role of public interest. As for the societies that have experienced the so called post-socialist societal transformation, the paper presents the argument that there are strong contradictions between the unitaryconcept of public interest embodied in statutary rules and the appearance of new urban actors and urban developers.