Metropolitan Regions of European Cities - Comparison of Current Regional Planning Trends in the Czech Republic and European Countries

We do not live in an isolated world. Although the situations, background conditions and cultural approaches of different European countries are different, European cities face similar challenges. With ongoing urbanization, the Cities and metropolitan regions face considerable and often contradictory demands. Implementation of the current plans requires cooperation between cities in functional regions, agreements at different levels, voluntary fulfillment of common goals and mutual trust above all. The Czech capacity of land use control is very poor in the comparation with Europe. Local governments have weak possition in centralized system. They are not cooperating together and land use control is low. The output of the research will be the comparison of the attitudes of several European Cities to the development planning of their regions with the current Czech practice, the assessment of differences and the recommendation of new approaches.