INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY ON THE QUALITY AND INTEGRITY OF RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS IN SLOVENIA: MARIBOR CASE STUDY.

The paper identifies the quality and integrity of residential environment [RE] in Slovenia that changed according to socio-economic circumstances when the new socialist society in the Yugoslav era (1945-1990) was formed and was substantially changed in the post-independence era of the liberal market society. The research of RE from different periods was conducted in the city of Maribor. The results indicate differences in quality in the period of the Scandinavian influence, engineering economy parameters after the housing reform, and of the market economy after independency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]