City Vision Prague

THE STRATEGIC VISION

The Prague of the future will be a successful, prosperous and internationally acclaimed city, a city that is creative, welcoming and safe, a city of equal opportunities and active citizens, a harmonious natural and urban environment, a working city that means having a reliably functioning and high quality transport system and technical infrastructure along with an effi cient executive body and friendly management of the city. The strategic plan for Prague is focused on eight main areas:

A successful and respected city

Prague in a new Europe
Prague wants to build on its historical importance and use the prestige it has acquired in the last twenty years. It wants to be an important European and global meeting place, a respected capital city and a good regional neighbour.

A prosperous city
Competitiveness
Prague is endeavouring to become a successful and competitive city with an effective economy based on its knowledge potential and a functioning labour market. It wants to secure prosperity and good living conditions for its inhabitants, attract visitors and have the resources necessary to bring public projects to fruition. It wants to fulfi l its role as the countrys centre of innovation.

A kind and contended city

People in Prague
Prague wants to be an attractive city and seeks to assure the satisfaction of its residents and visitors. It wants to provide a good standard of living in a city that has an attractive and balanced community and offers equal opportunities.

An attractive and sustainable city

Environment
Prague wants to achieve a high quality natural and urban environment while respecting the principles of sustainable development. It seeks to markedly reduce the current ecological burdens and achieve a balance between housing and land so as to become a city that is clean, healthy and harmonious.

A reliably functioning city

Infrastructure
Prague wants to modernize, develop and run the transport and technical infrastructure so that it supports the proper functioning of the city and its economy, as well as its ambitions and development. It should be on a par with current technical advances and operate reliably, effi ciently and be kind to the environment.

A safe city
Safety and security
Prague wants to provide a safe environment for its residents and visitors, both in everyday life and in exceptional circumstances. It wants to successfully resolve crisis situations involving natural disasters and transportation or industrial accidents. It wants to support long-term programmes aimed at social and situational crime prevention.

A dynamic and welcoming city

Administration and management
Prague wants to be a city with a dynamic and welcoming administration, effi cient in providing services and upholding public order. It wants to be effective in its co-operation with others based on partnership principles that will enable third parties to do business whilst also supporting public involvement in the management and development of the municipality.

A functionally and spatially balanced city

Spatial development
Prague wants to reach a position where it can alleviate the centre and make more balanced use of the entire city area. It also wants to improve the spatial structure and architecture in the city.

CORE STRATEGY
The strategic goals, which contribute the most to achieving the vision of a successful future for Prague, form the core of the strategy. They are the most dynamic areas of the programme and should be given the highest priority in Pragues further development. The search for a core strategy strategic goals which are expected to bring about the most desirable changes was given just as much attention while drawing up the draft concept strategy as analyzing the confl icts between those goals.

Long-term strategic goals

Create a favourable business environment
Expected effects

Greater competitiveness Good address for businesses, greater appeal to new investors and a fall in business risks. Growth in the citys prosperity and an increase in its fi nancial resources Increase in business motivation and competition in the labour market Development of the solid middle-class base

Support education and science to consolidate Pragues position as the main centre of innovation in the country
Expected effects
Improvement of the overall education levels of the Prague public; enhanced openness to new ideas and ability to adapt to the requirements of the day Better use of the citys human potential and science-research capacities, and an increase in the citys competitiveness Growing importance of Prague on a European-wide scale

Conserve and develop the citys cultural and urban values and make better use of tourism
Expected effects
Preservation of Pragues genius loci and traditional values; economic viability of protected buildings and city areas Development of culture as an important part of the overall quality of Prague; Prague seen as a good address and a major European city Greater tax income derived from the tourism industry

Efficiently manage all resources land, property, infrastructure, energy, water and finance based on the principles of sustainable development; balance their mutual interdependency
Expected effects
Careful and considered city development which respects the natural environment, landscape, building/ housing stock, fi nancial capabilities and other resources Reduction of the ecological burden now placed upon Prague; general improvement in Pragues public health Fulfi lment of the principles of sustainability and keeping to the environmental norms of the Czech Republic and the European Union Limitation of high water and energy losses

Develop a polycentric structure for Prague

Expected effects
A more balanced layout and distribution of various facilities and services in Prague which will have positive knock-on effects on the transport and technical infrastructures; full use of city lands to prevent one-sided overburdening of these areas Relieving the city centre and increasing the availability of land for citywide projects in attractive areas in the vicinity of Pragues historic core Completion of fully serviced areas in the city with well-balanced and fully functioning local centres Provision of previously lacking civic amenities and job opportunities in the more highly populated inner-city areas

Purposefully build partnerships for Prague when managing, planning and financing the citys development particularly between citizens and public

and private sectors with the active participation of the state

Expected effects

Concentration of resources and energies to fulfi l the key goals of city development and to speed up their implementation Growing ties with the Prague community, increase in public responsibility and awareness of Pragues fate, better communication between Prague and the Central Bohemia Region and the co-ordination of development goals and projects The core strategy defi nes the long-term strategic priorities for Prague. It became a starting point for the implementation programme covering the years 19992006 and will be considered when putting together the programme for implementing the citys strategic plan between 2009 and 2015.

STRATEGIC GOALS
E 1 Develop Prague as an important part of the new Europe E 1.1 Strengthen the prestige of Prague within the European Union E 1.2 Promote Prague as an important meeting place on the market of European metropolises E2 Secure the role of Prague as a respected capital city and good neighbour E 2.1 Strengthen Pragues position as the Czech capital and a centre that is accepted by the whole nation E 2.2 Promote good relations with other regions Source:

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