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Paper discusses the characteristics of the urban development of the City Zagreb by analysing the development of spatial planning and the changed power relations. During the last 20 years, the transformations have been mainly negative and have had important impact on changing the structure of residential, commercial and business zones, and on conversion of the industrial and military areas. Prispevek naslavlja značilnosti urbanega razvoja Zagreba z analizo razvoja prostorskega načrtovanja in spremenjenih odnosov moči. V zadnjih dvajsetih letih so bile preobrazbe večinoma negativne in vplivajo na spreminjanje strukture stanovanjskih, trgovskih in poslovnih con, pa tudi na preureditev industrijskih in vojaških območij.

Socio-spatial polarisation has been studied in the world literature for some twenty years. In that period we come upon some significant changes in the world economy which have been reflected on the spatial structure of many cities. This especially concernes the socio-economic component. The changes have not gone bypassed Zagreb, and were the most prominent in the period of transition. This work deals with the changes of the socio-economic structure of the city with a special emphasise on the transition period. These changes are intended to affirm some specifc qualities of the socio-spatial polarisation in Zagreb. The analysis has used the official statistics data as well as those obtained by field work. The conclusions were deduced from the worked out data analysis of the chosen examples in the city.

This paper analyses the role of therailway-station zones in the spatio-functional development of Zagreb duringtwo characteristic periods of its development: period of industrialurbanisation, and that of tertiary urbanisation. The zone of the mainpassenger railwaystation best shows the changes in the areasć purpose, aswell as the trends of creating new functional structures of the centralcity.

Together with its environs, the city forms a functional unit whose principal characteristic is intense and constant interaction. Since the term "environs" is relatively unspecific, the need arose to clearly define and isolate areas which have the most intense links to the city and in which the results of these links are best observed. This area, together with the central city, form the urban region. The criteria for discerning them can differ: demographic trends, daily commutes and other funkcional links, distance, etc. Since all relevant data from 2001 census that would facilitate a view into most recent changes in the Zagreb urban region are not yet available, most of this analysis makes use of data from 1991. census. For 2001, the available data on the active agriculture population, and daily commuters at the municipal level, were considered. The term transformation is used to designate changes in the socio-economic, functional and physiognomic sense. Socio-economic transformation is the result of links between the environs and the central city, and it is reflected through varying degrees of urbanization of settlements. In the Zagreb urban region, not counting the central city itself, five settlements have experienced the greatest degree of transformation and they can be deemed urban: Dugo Selo, Sesvete, Velika Gorica, Zaprešić and Samobor. These are also the largest settlements in the Zagreb region, which in earlier phases had a degree of centrality (municipal seats), and they developed as satellites to the city of Zagreb. The next category is more intensely urbanized settlements, and these are the majority in the Zagreb region (155 of 342). They are marked by a low share of the agricultural population and a high share of employed in the active population. The spatial arrangement of these settlements that generally surround Zagreb and extend along the main transit routes in radial fashion indicates that the main factor behind their transformation is daily commuting. This assertion is backed by the fact that the zone of greatest urbanization largely corresponds to the area of most intense commuting into Zagreb. The zone of enhanced transformation also extends around satellite centers, which indicates the maturity of the Zagreb urban region's developmnent, in which the satellite centers are very important. The remaining 83 settlements experienced a lower degree of transformation (weaker urbanization), while spatially they are adjacent to more intensely urbanized settlements. The region's very peripheries, farther from the central city and main transit routes, are domanted by generally small, rural settlements. Functional transformation is alalyzed through the function of labor. Here the satellite centers, and some other settlements, play a major role.