City management, integrated city development plan, city of Ostrava

The presentation is concerned with the development of central parts of city of Ostrava and the aplication od city management concept in there. City centers are faced to the growing competition, especially in context of development of shopping centers outside the compact city cores. The cities have to compete for purchasing power, attraction of investments and image as a whole. City of Ostrava is a typical industrial city, where the situation is complicated by very specific residential structure. The opening of the paper introduces City management concept - its organisational, institutional and economics aspects. The fundamental part of the presentation presents the analysis of two projects with different attitude, which aim to improve the attractivity of Ostrava city center.