摘要：This article concisely presents the project study for a developmental plan of the Šmarje pri Jelšah, municipality in the Republic of Slovenia. It begins with a short description of the project approach methodology in the development of rural communities and then presents a specific example, giving the basic spatial, economic, cultural and demographic characteristics of the municipality for which the project study was made and proposing measures for improving conditions. It concludes by stressing once more the importance of one of the basic characteristics of the method applied, i.e. population participation in drawing up developmental plans.
