TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
4.3
INCLUSIVE
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
Vienna is a city where social status is not automatically tied to
a “good” address. This is an asset that must be preserved. For
this reason, the City of Vienna is conducting targeted investments
in school and educational facilities (in particular stepping up the
number of all-day schools) in neighbourhoods characterised by
a trend towards socio-spatial polarisation and with a high share
of persons affected by poverty or at risk of poverty. This is to facilitate
upward mobility and strengthen the socioeconomic structure
of these neighbourhoods. Now this strategy is being intensified
by increasingly including available educational facilities (e. g.
libraries, learning cafés, adult education establishments) in the
overall strategy.
EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR UPWARD MOBILITY PROCESSES
In coming years, Vienna will identify urban quarters
with particularly massive demand for facilities that
foster upward mobility and will apply a networked
approach to the institutions and offerings available
in these parts of the city. This could e. g. be attained
by abandoning traditional organisational structures to
achieve greater effectiveness through a more strongly
fine-tuned and integrated approach by the respective
facilities.
Identification of urban quarters with particularly massive
demand for additional educational facilities close to residents’
homes.
Evaluation of urbanistic preconditions and identification of
possibilities for architectural interventions in these quarters
as well as of possible synergies with new developments in
the direct vicinity.
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