摘要：The author focuses on the socio-spatial aspects of social scanges and on the possibilities of their (anticipated) recognition and direction within the context of informatization and globalization. The basic question is how to deal with the growing complexity that has been encountered and differently responeded to by the idiosyncratic and nomothetic social sciences. The author more concretely presents different approaches and findings, which provide a basic for a unified understanding of life in the society at all levels of territorial societal organization, considered as a common, subdisciplinary field - spatial sociology. Interpretations about the end of »grand narratives« that would mean the ending of the regularity, predictability and planning are understood as the result of the growing complexity, which can be largely explained by long-term processes of individualization and globalization and with the »limits to growth«, which hold-back their further continuation on the local and global level. The technology has surpassed the mentality and planning practice: a mental capture into the »territorial trap« has been identified. The importance of space in terms of accessibility (as an obstacle, friction, distance) has reduced: simultaneously, deficiency in space has emerged and thus the importance of space as a »container« has set in. Contrary to the logic of the physical space (built environment), the zero sum game does not apply in the virtual space; when information is used it does not mean that it is consumed, and, accordingly, there - in principle - is no incompatibility between users. Global communication (mobility) does not by itself mean the negation of narrower territorial identities; it can also provide a challenge and the basis for their more marked assertion. Furthermore, home-centredness is taking place simultaneously to the ubiquity, which is typically shown as home-based telework and the roles of the internet and mobile phone. The general ideas presented above are illustrated by numerous experiences in the field of spatial and urban planning in Slovenia and world-wide.
