these goals along with desire to reduce traffic congestion are however only partly the purview of prague there is a lack of a metropolitan vision and strategy the rapid and continued growth of hundreds of communities surrounding prague necessarily impacts the city itself it has led to a large number of commuters to the urban core daily along with the attendant traffic congestion and air pollution problems it has placed pressure on prague s services and infrastructure and it has transformed former agricultural and green areas to new residential and commercialindustrial uses with services and infrastructure not always keeping up adequately to the pace of these new developments how can prague better coordinate with municipalities across its functional urban area to tackle pressing spatial development challenges