IBA Emscher Park, impulses, Czech Republic, Ostrava region

The article outlines the motives and objectives of the IBA Emscher Park and briefly describes the most inspiring outputs and planning approaches from the authors? points of view. Some critical points as well as the achievements of the IBA Emscher Park are presented more detailed, and it is explained, which principles of the IBA Emscher Park mainly contributed to the suc- cessful change of the region?s image. In order to assess the transferablility of the achieved impulses into the context of the Ostrava region in the north- eastern part of the Czech Republic, the differences and similarities of the Ruhr region and the Ostrava region are characterized.