Abstract: This article reviews the existing situation of the riverbanks development in three Eastern European capital cities. The aim of the work is to compare the riverbank management in Warsaw, Budapest and Prague and describe the main features of greenery system along the rivers. The material taken to the analyses was gathered by European Environment Agency and published in GIS format under the project Urban Atlas. The delimitation of the research area covers 500m from each site of the river beds. The research has shown that Warsaw has the biggest rate of the green area, especially along the Vistula right bank. It is still a great potential of land to develop for the city. Danube’s greenery in Budapest is concentrated mostly on the Margaret Island, whereas the Vltava greenery in Prague consists in majority of the pocket parks along the river. The low amount of green area at the rivers in the last two case studies and their patchwork location makes those systems too small to think about green riverbanks as a big scale and coherent linear project. Current trends of waterfront management are slowly entering those three cities mostly in a form of small social participation initiatives. It seems that the waterfronts will change their face soon in all analysed cities commenced by the urban acupuncture initiatives.
