List of contributors Vili // List of maps, figures and tables X // 1 Introduction 1 - Max Barlow, Petr Dostál and Martin Hampl // OLD AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS 13 // 2 Historical development of Prague 15 - Jiří Hrůza // 3 Changing economic base of Prague: towards new organizational dominance 29 - Petr Dostál and Martin Hampl // 4 From totalitarian urban managerialism to liberalized urban property market: Prague in early 1990s 47 - Luděk Sýkora and Iva Šimoníčková // 5 Administrative system and development of Prague 73 - Jiří Blažek, Martin Hampl and Luděk Sýkora // INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINTS 89 // 6 Vienna and Prague: political systems and urban development in the postwar period 91 - Elisabeth Lichtenberger // 7 Inner city and urban core: spatial consequences of societal transformation. A lesson from Amsterdam 117 - Willem F. Heinemeijer // 8 Alternative structures of government in metropolitan areas 125 - Max Barlow // FUTURE 139 // 9 Capital cities: a node, a hinge and a focus 141 - Herman van der Wüsten // 10 Development of Prague: long-term trends and scenarios 149 - Jiří Musil and Michal Illner // Appendix: Division of Prague into cadastral units 171