ABSTRACT
The political, social and economic changes in Central and Eastern Europe have their inevitable impact on the land use and planning and on the methods for urban development management. This is due not only to the transition from planned to market economy and the restitution measures. The
changing forms of property and the new attitudes towards planning increase substantially the number of decision makers involved in development of Bulgarian cities. In this new environment, it appears necessary more than ever before, to face the current problems from a completely new perspective, borrowing on both the positive as well as the negative urban experience in the developed countries, whose route Bulgaria is trying to follow.
