1. Introduction; 2. The historical metropolis of Central Europe; 3. The city and its Genius Loci; 4. Realisable potential but hidden problems: a heritage tale form five Central Europen cities; 5. Historic metropolis. A need for a clear strategy; 6. Metropolitan Intellect; 6. Arts and Media Industries and Their Role in Regional Development; 7. Cultural Heritage as a Potential for the development of metropolitan Areas; 8. Transfer and transformation: Art and the City in East Central Europe at the Beginning of the Modern Era; 9. The problem of artistic metropolises in east Central Europe form the fifteenth to the Twentieth Century; 10. Historical space in Warsaw City Centre; 11. Vienna. A history of Changing Roles and Lasting Attraction; 12. The historic metropolis in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centures; 13. Historic Areas: Destroyed or destructive or the role of heritage in the metropolitan development of Budapest in the 19th and 20th Century; 14. The role of historical heritage in the development of Prague as a metropolis in the 19th and 20th centuries; 15. The role of history in the creation of Zagreb as a historical metropolis in 19th and 20th centuries; 16.Should Cracow be a metropolis?; 17. A stop on the Road to Rusia ( olomouc and Vienna in the yares 1894-98); 18. Czerniowce: A forgotten metropolis on the frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy; 19. The burden of history: Rome 1870-2000; 20. The weight of the past in the development of Munich and Nuremberg in the 19th and 20th centuries; 21. Moscow and St. Petersburg - two capital contrasted; 22. Bergen - the historical metropolis of Scandinavia. The past and the future; 23. Brugge - the identity of the historic city and its Capacity for Change; 24. Management of historical cities and Market Forces. The Central Europen Experience;