In my diploma thesis, I deal with the city district of Šentvid through the prism of the concepts of identity and space. I will examine its relationship with the city of Ljubljana. The entire thesis is centered in the direction of showing the place of Šentvid as a historical suburb of Ljubljana, but with its own rich history and its own social processes. These social processes, as we will be able to see, took place very intensively for such a small area. I will elaborate on the history of the settlement. I will show exactly how the processes of industrialization, deagrarization, urbanization took place after the Second World War and what were the demographic trends of the place over time. When it comes to the question of identity, I will not stop with just answering the question of whether locals are considered to be people of Šentvid or Ljubljana. However, through my knowledge of the history of the place, I will analyze the bare question of identity itself. I will find that the question of identity in a place is much more complex than just the two allowed possibilities of identity. In my thesis, I will study two processes in parallel. The first is the study of the production of space also through the institutions that were the most influential in Šentvid at a certain time. The second process is the issue of identification in a place, where knowing the historical development of a given area helps us understand the issue greatly. In addition to reading literature about the area and intensive fieldwork in Šentvid, the results I will present are also the result of a semi-structured interview conducted with Brane Kopač, president of the Društvo Blaž Potočnikova čitalnica.
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