“…These include the increasing role of the private sector, an increase in entrepreneurial spirit among the population, and the greater involvement of the civil sector in urban planning and development. However, there has also been a general decline in the importance of urban planning, weakening of public administration in city management, absence of clear urban development strategies, lack of horizontal and vertical coordination between institutions and organisations, and stronger influence of social actors with financial (economic) power in comparison to civil actors and experts (Ianoş, Sorensen, & Merciu, 2017;Slavuj, Cvitanović, & Prelogović, 2009;Stanilov, 2007b;Svirčić Gotovac, 2010;Sýkora & Bouzarovski, 2012;Temelová, 2007;Tonković, 2015). Even in the case of fruitful processes of city centre revitalisation (the example of Ljubljana), Svirčić Gotovac & Kerbler 2019found that there was also no real citizen participation in this process, except at the formal planning level.…”