TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

POLITICAL ORIENTATION UNDERPINNING STEP 2025
Urban expansion is a project that can only be tackled jointly with
the different actors in the market: land owners, housing developers,
citizens and private investors creating jobs. The objective
lies in motivating these stakeholders to act in concert and take
part in sharing the costs for essential infrastructure provision.
The legal frame conditions must ensure profitability for both the
urban economy and the private sector.
In its urban development planning, the City of Vienna strives for
“good governance”, i. e. for targeted, partnership-based and transparent
co-operation between political-administrative units, civil
society and real economy, taking account of the dimensions of
quality of life and sustainability.
A city of opportunities and prosperity
Vienna is a city of opportunities and possibilities to realise new
ideas and to engage in productive business enterprises. It is a
task of urban planning to provide a wealth of suitable company
locations for a great variety of different enterprises.
Vienna is committed to its long-standing industrial tradition as
well as to the creative input of younger companies. In the future,
too, Vienna is to be evolved as a business location by ensuring
that industrial, commercial and service companies will find space
and appropriate frame conditions to flourish.
The City of Vienna invites new actors able to create manifold types
of use to play a role in urban development. Self-organisation and
civic engagement are welcome complements to established structures.
Regional co-operation and international networking strengthen
the metropolitan region of Vienna as a key Central European
space. Viable co-operation structures, the equitable sharing of
burdens and advantages as well as joint settlement and regional
transport policies are core elements of interregional collaboration.
Vienna is a location embedded in international exchange and
therefore reflects the challenges of a globalised world. Its further
development as a node of trans-European infrastructure networks
is thus of fundamental importance.
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