Abstract
The study deals with basic issues of interwar development and changes in Prague, which the author places in the context of the modernisation process that took place in the capital cities of the new republics, but also in other major metropolitan centres of Central and Eastern Europe. The new function of the regional capitals and the question of overcoming direct and indirect war damage come to the fore, with the war acting as a factor accelerating post-war modernisation.
Issues of a social nature and the matter of inner-city movement and transport are highlighted as the dominant problems of the municipal policy of European capitals in Central and Eastern Europe. The connection between the complex modernisation of interwar cities and the activities of specific personalities in the communal political sphere is also addressed.