TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

1 VIENNA: SETTING THE STAGE
The adoption of STEP 2025 on 25 June 2014 by
the Vienna City Council marks the final point of a
development process that, spanning over two
years, has led to the formulation of a common
understanding of central challenges and of corresponding
strategies and initiatives. However, at
the same time, it provides the starting-point for
the effect that STEP will exert on Vienna’s future
urban development policy.
STEP AS A
STARTING-POINT
In three chapters, the Urban Development Plan
2025 sketches a picture of the city and the future
generations who will live and work in Vienna:
Vienna: building the future: the vision of a new
urbanism in the city of the future
Vienna: reaching beyond its borders: the vision
of the future position of Vienna as a city of business
and research, in the metropolitan region
and in the European competition between locations
Vienna: networking the city: the vision of the
future of mobility, green and social networks as
the backbone of the city until 2025 and beyond
STEP 2025 is the first-ever Urban Development
Plan for Vienna that was not dated with its year of
genesis but points towards the future. In this way,
STEP 2025 wants to focus explicitly on a vision
of the city of tomorrow and to address future
issues. All strategies, initiatives and instruments
named in the Urban Development Plan hence do
not arise merely from critical stocktaking but
are actually oriented towards this future scenario.
Fig. 5:
STEP as a strategic framework;
Source: own diagram
THEMATIC CONCEPT
THEMATIC CONCEPT
MANUAL
PROGRAMME
TARGET AREA
PROGRAMME
MASTER PLAN
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