The thesis focuses on the field of spatial sociology with an important emphasis on communities and temporary project structures and the laws of community operation based on the theory of sociological classics. Communities will be observed through temporary project structures defined on the basis of university-community partnership (UCP) and community-based participatory research (CBPR). We will use community theory to find the potential for the possible establishment of a more lasting bond or partnership between spatial actors and spatial stakeholders. With the empirical data we obtained from the projects Outside and Urban Education Live (UEL), we will investigate whether the more connected goal-defined community activities and the production of a common social space have been successfully implemented in temporary project structures. To understand the performance of research models on temporary project structures, we will use the already established model of categorization, which will emphasize the necessary elements of temporary structures. Communities, defined by spatial actors (Center for Spatial Sociology, Institute for Spatial Policies together with the Municipal Administration of the City of Ljubljana), play the role of active spatial stakeholders in the process of spatial transformation. Empirical work was obtained in individual stages of projects (before, during, after) at a time interval of twenty-four months.
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