Abstract
Thematic issue of the journal "Urban People / Lidé města" is primarily dedicated to Prague, Warsaw and Krakow. The viewpoint of the issue are questions like: what is the importance of the historical character of a city for the character and contentment of the people who live in it? How do they live in quarters with a short history (in housing estates), how do they live in zones with monuments, today crowded with tourists, and how do they live in cities and in quarters with a past that tears at the emotions (e.g., in places where, during the Second World War, there were ghettos overloaded with human suffering)? And is it at all possible to live in areas of former concentration camps without suppressing the past of those places?