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nantly urban lifestyle, spending much of their active time in the city. That
might be a solution to the dilemma considering the definition of urban po-
pulation. However, for now there is a lack of proper data to define the level
of urbanity of an individual’s lifestyle. For practical reasons it is therefore
very common practice to divide the settlements into urban and others and
consider the population living in urban settlements as urban.
Settlement patterns in different parts of the world differ very much
and therefore the approaches to the definition of urban settlements or are-
as differ as well. However, even in a small country such as Slovenia there
is no consensus about how to define urban settlements and/or urban are-
as. Different authors used different approaches or used different criteria or
thresholds. None of the existing definitions solves the basic problem: to
encompass the majority of population with urban characteristics within
204 urban settlements (areas). The limit between urban and other settlements
always divides suburban neighborhoods from the nearby settlements that
have almost or even completely equal living conditions and the same kind
of population that lives there. To avoid this we analyzed how the dwel-
ling densities are associated with different demographic characteristics.
For this purpose we used the smallest spatial units (spatial districts) and
we calculated the average number of dwellings per building. According to
the average dwelling density we divided all spatial districts into three cate-
gories with 6 classes:
• Low: 1.00–1.02 and 1.03–1.99;
• Medium: 2.00–9,99 and 10.00–24.99 and
• High: 25.00–49.99 and 50.00–169.00
Population aggregate of each classe’s spatial districts is one of the
subpopulations of total Slovenian population. We compared this subpo-
pulations with those obtained on the basis of the statistical definition of
the settlements of urban areas. According to that Slovenia has 154 urban
settlements that are forming 104 urban areas (city and the adjacent settle-
ments of urban area). In most cases settlements coincide with the urban
area, but in some cases some of the closest (adjacent) smaller settlements
were defined as urban and together with the central city form its urban
area (Maribor with 20 adjacent settlements, Ljubljana with 3 etc.). The-
se 50 smaller settlements are called settlements of urban area and in our
analysis we considered them as a separate category of urban settlements.
We divided the rest of urban settlement into three categories according to
their size:
nantly urban lifestyle, spending much of their active time in the city. That
might be a solution to the dilemma considering the definition of urban po-
pulation. However, for now there is a lack of proper data to define the level
of urbanity of an individual’s lifestyle. For practical reasons it is therefore
very common practice to divide the settlements into urban and others and
consider the population living in urban settlements as urban.
Settlement patterns in different parts of the world differ very much
and therefore the approaches to the definition of urban settlements or are-
as differ as well. However, even in a small country such as Slovenia there
is no consensus about how to define urban settlements and/or urban are-
as. Different authors used different approaches or used different criteria or
thresholds. None of the existing definitions solves the basic problem: to
encompass the majority of population with urban characteristics within
204 urban settlements (areas). The limit between urban and other settlements
always divides suburban neighborhoods from the nearby settlements that
have almost or even completely equal living conditions and the same kind
of population that lives there. To avoid this we analyzed how the dwel-
ling densities are associated with different demographic characteristics.
For this purpose we used the smallest spatial units (spatial districts) and
we calculated the average number of dwellings per building. According to
the average dwelling density we divided all spatial districts into three cate-
gories with 6 classes:
• Low: 1.00–1.02 and 1.03–1.99;
• Medium: 2.00–9,99 and 10.00–24.99 and
• High: 25.00–49.99 and 50.00–169.00
Population aggregate of each classe’s spatial districts is one of the
subpopulations of total Slovenian population. We compared this subpo-
pulations with those obtained on the basis of the statistical definition of
the settlements of urban areas. According to that Slovenia has 154 urban
settlements that are forming 104 urban areas (city and the adjacent settle-
ments of urban area). In most cases settlements coincide with the urban
area, but in some cases some of the closest (adjacent) smaller settlements
were defined as urban and together with the central city form its urban
area (Maribor with 20 adjacent settlements, Ljubljana with 3 etc.). The-
se 50 smaller settlements are called settlements of urban area and in our
analysis we considered them as a separate category of urban settlements.
We divided the rest of urban settlement into three categories according to
their size:
