Smart growth can be perceived as natural step in sustainable development understanding, combining sustainability with optimalization of urban processes within cities and their functional regions. On one hand, the integrated planning in Smart growth can be identified in smart grids, smart buildings and smarter cities concept finally, proving that smart growth is a kind of evolutionary process. On the other, both processes of European cohesion and smart growth itself will determine European Union future expressed in Horizon 2020. It is interesting whether they will overlap to create NEW quality of accepted smart strategy for European future.