ABSTRACT
Post-socialist societies have experienced quite fundamental economical, social, and environmental transformations since 1980s.1 Their specific geography and history, and the specificity of their transition from socialistic towards capitalistic and democratic regulation are reflected in some distinct characteristics and changes of quality of life, health, and senses of places.2 But it is almost impossible to think of post-socialist societies as a homogeneous community. Instead of searching for what they have in common, extensive review of the literature (published separately, Krevs 2008) has been carried out to collect a mosaic of selected examples highlighting some national, regional, or local specificities within the studied context. In this chapter two of the studies are exposed in some detail, revealing relations between sense of neighbourhoods and quality of life in urban municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and between sense of ‘Mediterraneity’ and health in Slovenia. Other selected examples are used in the introductory overview, and as a context in the discussion about these two local examples within a wider post-socialist frame.
