at present there is both a high degree of linkage associated with the effects from rapid suburban growth that revolve around weaknesses in road and public transport investment congestion rising from the increase in commuting perceptions that suburban residents are using urban public services that they are not paying for and a shift in tax base from prague to nearby municipalities because prague is spatially bound almost any suburban development takes place outside its municipal boundary which makes the intensity of the effects high prague is striving to adopt a green growth urban strategy that is based on a compact city and to encourage urban renewal through redevelopment of browmfield sites while this is the vision of the city of prague s government it does not appear to be the vision of the surrounding municipalities nor of the people who have relocated there