Transformation of the urban structure in the context of globalisation and sustainable development

In the last decades we are witnessing the consensus among the major part of the society on the research of sustainable development in all possible people´s fields of activity. In the sustainability concept, the change of the spatial structures of the city is a special challenge: the decisions taken today are fixed in the built enviroment for long decades, if not centuries. There is an increasing integration of the countries into one system defined by strong economical and cultural links - this is what we call globalisation. The globalisation affect all the localities, cities, the country and causes continuing change we are witnessing. Geographical flexibility and independence of the global companies lead often to schematic and characteristic use of the space, without the relation to the context. It is a direction contrary to the sense of what we call sustainable development. In the post- socialistic cities including czech cities the city fabric and the city image begins to change som