Urbanity and diversity

摘要

First of all an "advisory council for urban development areas" was set up to discuss aspects of Vienna's new situation and in this way to create a basis for quality urban development, in particular in Transdanubien (the extensive suburban areas of the city to the north of the Danube). But soon terms such as "competition between locations" and "investor urban planning" became commonplace so that it is perhaps better to spread a cloak of silence over some of the Viennese urban development projects from that era. After the start of the new millennium an attempt was made in Vienna to pursue new aspirations. The first step in this direction was the large-scale planning for the Seestadt Aspern, which from the start and up to the present day has been carried out most ambitiously and, for this reason, exerts an influence on other projects in Vienna. The development of the large new urban district on former railway areas behind the new Main Station, which began around the same time, was, at least in urban planning terms, initially not conceived quite so ambitiously - even though in the Sonnwendviertel West excellent housing projects and an innovative school building have been erected and one of Vienna's first new parks, the Helmut-Zilk-Park, has been made.