Abstract
At the end of 19th century Prague was rapidly developing due to industrialization. The demolition of the city walls enabled gradual connection of Prague and its suburbs.
Redevelopment of Josefov, Old and New Town changed the character of poor quarters into luxurious district with broad streets. A.
Hurtig, as a head surveyor of Building Authority of the Capital City of Prague, published topographic plans of Prague and its outskirts on a large scale. These reflected not only new administrative arrangements and captured the current state of the city, but also contained building plots and planned or later realized constructions of streets and residential areas.
The plans used to be supplemented with demographical data, which reflected dynamic growth of Prague's suburbs. The city development is documented in Hurtig's plans not only through the housing construction but also with the infrastructure and social amenities.
The paper presents examples of this development using the case study of Královské Vinohrady district. The Greater Prague factually came to be in 1922.