TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

GOVERNANCE AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE JOINT DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
STEP engages in dialogue - Wien 2025
To ensure that this orientation towards participatory
processes and new partnerships will
become reality, the principle of constructive dialogue
was already systematically applied during
the formulation of STEP 2025: the present text
is not only based on numerous studies and the
expertise of urban planning specialists; rather,
the individual initiatives and measures often
are the outcome of intensive exchanges with
representatives of municipal districts, neighbouring
municipalities and the Federal Province of
Lower Austria, of business circles and civil society
as well as of numerous other experts, all of
whom added their experience and ideas to the
discussion.
Moreover, urban development policies of coming
years may draw upon an even bigger pool of
ideas: parallel to the genesis of STEP as a specialised
planning document, the Viennese po pulation
was encouraged to formulate their ideas
and visions of a city of the future in manifold
ways: as principles, sketches or models in the
context of workshop processes (“Future Labs”
and “Future Talks”), as posts relating to the
“Wien 2025” discussion process conducted on the
Web and on Facebook or within the scope
of several public events. The results of this broadbased
dialogue process were edited for an exhibition
at Planungswerkstatt and are available
for the City of Vienna as suggestions and mandate
for further study and analysis in coming years.
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