The city of Šibenik is a prime example of unsuccessful post-socialist transition, a city whose industrial legacy failed to accommodate the new paradigm of the post-industrial: 21st century's request for the knowledge based economy and the forms of productivity it encompasses. As a result, Šibenik is a city in decline, whose depopulation and unemployment rates have only been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis. In this socio-economic context, it is illusory that the current shrinking (thinning?) of the city can somehow be reversed by "inexhaustible demand on each urban location for ever more housing, ever more shops, ever more social facilities, that can be made manifest by a simple operation, the creation of a more healthy urban fabric." (Koolhaas and Ungers, 1977) Furthermore, given that the city's retrenchment is a product of larger political, economic and social maladaptation, the spatial/architectural introduction of the 'small scale urban production' of the 'mixed-city' ideology runs the risk of being a purely formalist approach; wishful thinking totally divorced from the historic development of productivity with the advent of globalized mass market where, for example, 'low-skilled' work is outsourced to more convenient countries. However, there is another kind of immediate, 'material' produce, whose constant flow is independent of the entrepreneurial imagination of the populace or of the political prowess of the elites - that of tourism. The city of Šibenik is endowed with exquisite natural beauty of its surroundings and the biggest and most exceptional medieval historic centre of all coastal cities in Croatia. Recent building of the Nikola Bašić hotel (along with his mega-project of 'Dalmapolis') and 'facelifting' of the historic centre for hospitality purposes presume a kind of consensus, that resonates with the collective unconscious of the city's inhabitants, that the only production plausible in Šibenik is (re)production of tourists.