VIENNA,

AUSTRIA
GROUP MEMBERS:

CASTRO, Gladly
CASTULO, Edgar Bryn
INBENTAN, Joy
MACAYAN, Janine
MARTINEZ, Angelica

UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
AR 412 - PLANNING 03
CONTENTS

01 INTRODUCTION

02 VIENNA, AUSTRIA

03 VIENNA SUSTAINABLE FEATURES

04 VIENNA STRATEGY POLICIES

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01
INTRODUCTIO
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SUSTAINABLE CITY
A city designed with consideration for social,
economic, environmental impact, and
resilient habitat for existing populations,
without compromising the ability of future
generations to experience the same. It is a
city that has the ability social, economic and
ecological balance of its built environment

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SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUTIES

“To make cities and

human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient,
and sustainable”

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 Safe and affordable housing
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 Affordable and sustainable transport
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systems
 Inclusive and sustainable urbanization
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  Protect the world's cultural and natural
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heritage
 Reduce the adverse effects of natural
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disasters
  Reduce the environmental impacts of
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cities
 Provide access to safe and inclusive
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green and public spaces

7 Targets and indicators

• 1. "By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade
slums"
• 2. "By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving
road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable
situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons“
• 3. "By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and
sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries"
• 4. “Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage."
• 5. "By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially
decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including
water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations“
• 6.  “By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention
to air quality and municipal and other waste management.”
• 7. “By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular
for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities”
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA
VIENNA
A CITY LOCATED IN
EUROPE

CITY FLAG CITY SEAL

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VIENNA
THE LARGEST CITY
AND THE CAPITAL OF
AUSTRIA

CITY FLAG CITY SEAL

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FACTS
THE WINE CAPITAL
Vienna is the only capital city in the world to produce significant quantities
of wine within its city limits. Home to over 1,700 acres of vineyards and
320 vintners, the Viennese love their wine.
THE CITY OF MUSIC
Vienna is often called The City of Music, or the World’s Capital of Music,
as more famous composers have lived here than in any other city in the
world. And 
4 of the top 10 classical composers in history worked in Vienna between 1
750 and 1825
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 THE IMPERIAL MENAGERIE
The Vienna Zoo, or Tiergarten Schönbrunn, is the world’s oldest and only
baroque zoo. Built in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in 1752, the zoo
was once the private menagerie of Emporer Franz Stephen and Empress
Maria Theresa.
 THE WIENER RIESENRAD
The Wiener Riesenrad, constructed in 1897, is the oldest still operating
ferris wheel in the world. Located in the Wurstelprater amusement park,
this is one of Vienna’s most popular tourist attractions. For many, it is also
a symbol of the city.
FACTS
VIENNA – THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD
Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city for the last 7 years in a
row. Taking into account such factors as political, social and economic
climate, medical care, education, recreational opportunities, environmental
conditions, infrastructural conditions, Vienna consistently comes out on
top!
THE CITY OF DREAMS
Vienna is also called the city of dreams. Sigmund Freud, the father of
psychoanalysis, lived and worked in Vienna for much of his career. During
this time, he had a significant impact on the city, causing it to be known as
the birthplace of psychotherapy.
 VIENNA TODAY
With a population of nearly 2.5 million people in
its greater metropolitan area, Vienna is the largest
city in Austria. Its metro system sees 1.3 million
passengers every single day and it is the best
performing public transport system in the entire
world, according to the International Association
of Public Transport.

With a combination of policies aiming to integrate

urban and transport planning, and shifting traffic to
environmentally-sustainable modes of
transportation, Vienna significantly increased its
modal share for public transportation. In the
meantime, the city has taken on a list of measures
to improve sustainable transportation, like
developing public transport infrastructure,
improving public transport quality and image,
enacting stringent parking space management
measure for commuters, and improving conditions
for pedestrians and cyclists.
Cities like Vienna have been actively engaged in compiling
mobility plans following the SUMP approach. In Vienna, a new
Urban Development Plan called STEP 2025 was prepared in 2014.
The STEP 2025 Plan was formulated in an intensive process of
dialogue that involved a great number of experts, both of the
planning bodies and, cutting across executive policy groups, of
many other municipal departments as well as from outside the
Vienna city administration. It provides a multifaceted overview of
measures to steer Vienna’s development. Vienna’s future oriented
mobility strategy was acknowledged by the European Commission
on 20 April 2016 with the 'Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning
Award'.
On a more specific level Vienna has adopted the 
Vienna Urban Development Plan 2025 which foresees a concept
for integrative urban energy planning, to which URBAN
LEARNING will provide inputs.

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VIENNA SUSTAINABLE
FEATURES
HOW IS VIENNA SUSTAINABLE?
Vienna is the greenest among
the 50 most visited cities on the
planet, according to the study
evaluating the cities’ green and
sustainable solutions such as
parks, the use of renewable
energy sources, public
transportation, water
consumption, walkability,
recycling and air pollution.

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1. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Vienna has just changed its building
code and expanded the obligatory solar
roofs rule to all new buildings. The local
authority not only added residential and
educational structures but made it
compulsory to mount solar panels in the
case of renovation. The regulations now
also include for electric cars in new
building mandatory chargers.

According to Resonance Consultancy 23

University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna

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2. ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Tramway trains is a vital part of the public
transport system in the city. Providing
safe, affordable, accessible and
sustainable transport systems for all.

According to Resonance Consultancy 25

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3. PROVISION FOR BIKE RENTALS AND BIKE LANES

The Citybikes can be rented at public

stations within. There are 121
conveniently located stations, often in the
vicinity of subway stations or rapid transit
stations.

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4. PEDESTRIAN ACCESSIBILITY
Vienna provide universal access to safe,
inclusive and accessible, green and
public spaces

According to Resonance Consultancy 29

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5. DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL
RELATIONSHIP
The development of social networks to
strengthen good-neighborly and
intercultural relations supports social
integration and prevents isolation. The
basis is provided by suitable local,
expert-monitored services to foster
network activities and codetermination
processes

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6. PRESERVATION OF GREEN SPACE AND PARKS

Vienna is a city where nature and the

built environment comfortably coexist.
With 90 parks and gardens, green
spaces constitute about half of the city’s
land area. This comes out to about 120
square meters of green space for each of
Vienna’s inhabitants — among the
highest ratios of any city in the world.

According to Resonance Consultancy 33

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Schönbrunn( Vienna Biggest Palace) Volksgarten 34

Parklets

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Green Walls

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Hundertwasserhaus

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7. GOOD REGULATION ON BUSINESSES
The promotion of local businesses
(network support, neighborhood and
shopping-street marketing, management
of vacant premises, support of new
enterprises) is a cornerstone for the
smooth functioning of a city quarter.

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8. AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The use of instruments like developers’
competitions or property advisory boards
is one way to develop high-quality
subsidized housing.

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VIENNA STRATEGY POLICIES

Strategy Plan for Vienna
The Strategy Plan for Vienna is a modern planning tool designed by the Vienna
city government to provide guidance for future developments. It formulates
objectives for an ideal development of the city, which transcend the traditional
urban development concepts (such as the 1994 Urban Development Plan).
The Strategy Plan creates links between the programmes, concepts and measures
of many different areas, while at the same time taking account of sociopolitical
visions and global challenges. This approach emerged as a result of an interactive
dialogue between community representatives, which created the basis from which
the Strategy Plan evolved.

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Business location
policy
The economic policy goals laid down in the
Strategy Plan focus on strengthening the
economic structure of the Vienna Region
and on promoting Vienna’s export
competence. These efforts, which have to
be backed up by a forward-looking
infrastructure and transport policy, aim at
buttressing the city’s competitiveness as an
international business location.
Key labor market policy measures include
incentives to generate and secure
employment and other sources of income,
and to enhance education and training to
improve the qualification level.

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Long-term policy for
green areas
Vienna’s especially sensitive and
structurally important green landscapes
must be preserved and protected against
damage. In the periphery of the city, an
unbroken “green belt” must be maintained
and expanded into the territory of the
surrounding communities.
Provision of necessary finance for the
purchase and design of open spaces,
funds, sponsors and public-private
partnerships should play an increasing role
to supplement public funds. Financial
assistance and consulting services have to
be provided to farmers in this zone to
ensure the continued existence of farms,
which make an indispensable contribution
to the maintenance of cultural landscapes,
in addition to providing the city with fresh 43
produce at short distances.
Urban conservation
and development
policies
While preserving Vienna’s historical
cityscape is a cultural obligation for the city,
the overarching task of policy-makers and
administrators is to keep the city alive and
functioning for its inhabitants.
Preservation of historical monuments and
maintaining the historical cityscape,
sufficient opportunities must be provided for
the proactive integration of forward-looking
forms of architecture and urban planning–
for only this will ensure that Vienna can
cope with the needs and necessities of a
big city today.

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Urban living space
City inhabitants are entitled to an
environment that provides quality of life and
everyday functionality, which implies the
need for an attractive public space. But
public spaces are a “scarce commodity” in
densely built-up cities and are excessively
burdened by motorised traffic,
advertisements, etc. In many cases, a
restructuring of functions or design is
necessary if public space is to be regained
as an “open space” for people.
The objective is to provide inhabitants from
diverse groups with an opportunity to
occupy such spaces spontaneously and
use them according to their needs: for
playing, as islands of recreation or places of
communication. Flexible solutions that allow
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side by side at the same time.
Linking bodies of
water and green
zones

So-called “green wedges” will

function as links between the green
belt and other recreational areas and
the densely built-up urban zones.
Visible and usable surface bodies of
water in a near natural state are
especially suited to this purpose
because of their inherent connecting
function. Thus, the project foresees
the restoration to a near-natural
state of the Danube Canal, the Wien
river and the Liesing brook.

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 THANK YOU!
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