In the bachelor thesis, we studied the attitude toward investments between 2011 and 2021 of the local residents of the Municipality of Grosuplje. We analyzed the investments at three spatial levels (municipality, local community, settlement). We conducted an e-survey among residents of all settlements in the municipality (N=421), listed, photographed and mapped the investments during the fieldwork as well as conducted an interview with a local community president. We found out that more investments were carried out in the most developed (economically and demographically) part of the Municipality of Grosuplje compared to the parts of the municipality that are farthest from the center. Various factors, such as the location or the distance from the municipality's center, population growth, existing condition and development of the road network, affect where, how much and in what fields investments will be executed. In the Municipality of Grosuplje, the local residents deem the road network investments as most important because the road network’s poor condition can lead towards the »peripheralization« of rural area. This was followed by the classification of ten local communities into: 1. municipal center as an investment concentration area, 2. local communities with central activities and more important investments, 3. marginality at the local level in terms of accessibility and a smaller number of investments, 4. local communities between the center and the margin in terms of accessibility and the number of investments. Our analysis confirmed that conflicts, that can occur when the investments are executed, appear more frequently in bigger local communities. At the same time we presented the fields in which the local population would like investments in the future (at the level of settlements).
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