TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

GLOSSARY
Lower Austria for intensified co-operation
across provincial borders to improve
the exploitation of development potentials
of the urban region. City-Environs Management
is embedded in the association
“Niederösterreich/Wien − gemeinsame
Entwicklungsräume” and is concerned
with planning and management tasks that
affect both Vienna and the neighbouring
municipalities in Lower Austria. This on
the one hand involves issues of joint strategic
regional development and on the
other hand touches on concrete joint projects.
Superordinate green corridors
Superordinate green corridors are contiguous
open spaces that can serve social,
ecological and climatological functions.
They provide the local population with
open spaces near their homes, create and
safeguard habitats for animals and plants
and network these, foster traffic avoidance
by means of good accessibility and
moreover benefit the generation and
transport of fresh air.
Two-tiered developers’ competitions
Developers’ competitions are a time-tried
instrument of subsidised housing construction
in Vienna. They play a key role in
safeguarding high quality in housing construction
and ensure efficient and costeffective
solutions. Two-tiered developers’
competitions further evolve this successful
instrument. They allow for the gradual
development of optimised urbanistic,
architectural and functional solutions
while involving municipal experts, teams
of architects and project developers.
University Location Vienna Concept
The University Location Vienna Concept
analysed the interactions between university
sites and urban development. The
analysis showed that Vienna disposes of
a sufficient number of locations suitable
for universities.
Urban technologies
This term covers products and services in
such thematic areas as telecommunica-
tions, transport and mobility, energy
and environment, supply and disposal,
construction and housing as well as conservation.
They are one focal point of
Vienna’s urban research activities and of
the Technology Agency of the City of
Vienna.
Vienna Business Agency
The Vienna Business Agency is the central
point of the City of Vienna for both Austrian
and foreign enterprises, company
founders and investors. The task and
objective of this institution lie in strengthening
Vienna’s enterprises and their
innovative clout as well as in sustainably
modernising Vienna as a business location.
Together with its subsidiaries, the
Vienna Business Agency supports the
implementation of innovative growth projects
by offering financial incentives,
customised counselling and business
infrastructure.
Vienna Campus Model and Vienna
Campus plus Model / campus sites
The Vienna Campus Model and its successor,
the Vienna Campus plus Model,
concentrate kindergartens, schools and
leisure education in one location. Campus
plus sites opt increasingly for the networking
of individual educational institutions
as well as for the integration of further
partners within the education sector,
e. g. Music Schools of the City of Vienna,
mass sports, youth centres and other
neighbourhood service providers. Multiple
use is aimed for in as many areas as possible.
Thus Campus plus is an all-inclusive
educational facility for children aged
0 to 10 years that is steeped in a comprehensive
and holistic concept of education.
Vienna Charter
The Vienna Charter was launched in
March 2012 and constituted a hitherto
unique citizen participation project in
Europe. Pursuing the objective of jointly
shaping good-neighbourly relations in
Vienna, a total of 8,500 Viennese conduct
ed discussions in 651 groups to voice
their ideas. The Charter process was initi-
ated by the City of Vienna and implemented
together with over 325 partner
organisations. The preamble to the
Charter reads, “Vienna is home: for
women and men, for young and old, for
those who were born here and for those
who moved to the city, for people with
different worldviews, beliefs and needs.
To get along well, we need to respect each
other. Respect means accepting other
people the way they are – as we ourselves
wish to be accepted and respected.
Human rights are our common basis.”
Vienna Region
VIENNA REGION Marketing GmbH is a
public company established in 2008
and owned by the Federal Provinces of
Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland.
It is the purpose of this enterprise to
inter nationally position and market the
Vienna Region as a business and technology
location. The supraregional platform
“VIENNA REGION Wirtschaft.Raum.
Entwicklung GmbH” serves as an instrument
to co-ordinate co-operation and
facilitate knowledge transfer between the
federal provinces.
Vienna’s open space network
Vienna’s open space network comprises
the city’s main network of priority green
and open space corridors that are of
importance for the city as a whole and
hence must be sustainably protected and
adequately designed. The open space
network was defined by taking account of
four main functions of urban open and
green spaces: everyday functions (significance
of open and green spaces as key
axes and spaces of movement on foot or
by bike, as central places of social contacts
and as spaces of experience, leisure
and relaxation), structuring of the urban
fabric (significance of open and green
spaces for the structuring of the urban
fabric, orientation and identity creation),
functions for urban ecology (significance
of open and green spaces for the urban
climate, air quality and groundwater
recharge), nature conservation functions
(significance of open and green spaces as
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