“…Therefore, rational space management in suburban areas gains particular importance in reference to the essence of the doctrine. Urbanisation in suburban zones, known as suburbanisation, are currently one of the primary problems in the development of large European cities and their peripheral zones, both in so-called "old Europe" (Penerai, 2008 Phelps andWu, 2011;Phelps 2017) and in the majority of large cities in post-Communist countries (Sýkora, 1999;Tammaru, Kulu and Kask, 2004;Hirt, 2007;Sýkora and Ouředníček, 2007;Kährik and Tammaru, 2008;Pojani, 2011;Krišjāne and Bērzinš, 2012;Kubeš, 2013;Stanilov and Sýkora, 2014;Tanaś and Trojanek, 2014;Mihai, Nistor and Simion, 2015). Such processes cover further spatial development of cities, transformations of urban structures spatially arranged in loose groups of settlement units, spatial-functional integration leading to combining of neighbouring agglomerations, as well as urbanisation of typically rural areas leading to the disappearance of the dichotomy between urban and rural areas (Bański, 2008).…”