Abstrakt
In this chapter we summarize and discuss the impact of public policies and planning at national, regional, and local levels of governance on the spread of post-suburbanization. Using the evidence presented in the city case studies, we highlight similarities and differences in the ways in which the patterns of urban growth have been influenced by the policy choices made by the post-socialist government bodies, stressing the governments' universal acceptance of suburbanization as an integral and inevitable process of urban growth under the conditions of capitalism.
The chapter concludes by casting a glance at the likely future scenarios for metropolitan growth in the region, linking the possible trajectories of suburbanization to the ways in which societies in Central and Eastern Europe will address key issues arising from the challenges specific for the region as well as those facing the planet at the dawn of the new millennium.