Information models of urban development trends

Implementation of sustainable development policy is one of the most complicated tasks and challenges faced by the global community. The efforts to move the concept of sustainable development from a theoretical level to a decision-making level and to link the economic development to environment are followed by a number of problems. Several theories and individual methods of the development of trends exist and they could be applied in the forecast of potential future. The setting of concerned social problems, related to scientific knowledge, its receipt and representation, consists of four different but inter-related elements: real world, data, theory, model. Analysis of the sustainable development must be based on a systematic approach. In article are presented some examples of models: urban development, foreign investment, the standard of living and housing and others. The trends of regional development scenarios (Supporting, Green and Market) are described in next chapter. Conclusions and recommendations finalized article.