From the 19th century the urbanistic development of Banská Štiavnica was influenced by changes as well as other towns in Slovakia. The period of continuous organic formation of the environment controlled by the town community has been passed. Voluntaristic intervenes of investors appear, they respect the environment they enter only in a small degree. After the 2nd World War by the junction of urbanistic theory of functionalism and the power of the socialist systems are formed the preconditions for a radical change of urbanistic structure and view of the town at variance with its traditional shaping that succeeded realize to a certain degree. This evolution was disturbed by the change of the social-political-economical situation after the year 1989. At present is important to qualifiedly establish the necessary conditions of regulation of the development as early as possible.