TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

CENTRES AND UNDERUSED AREAS
2.3
VIENNA’S
STRATEGIES FOR
CENTRES AND
UNDERUSED AREAS
BALANCED, POLYCENTRIC
LOCATION DEVELOPMENT,75_REG
Various types of centres – from sub-centres to central business
districts, from knowledge hubs to trading poles – serve different
functions on behalf of the city. Centre development includes all
of these types. Thus it is essential to evolve not only the hotspots
of business and politics, culture and city tourism, but also subcentres
whose functions aim at the surrounding neighbourhoods
and which ensure high supply for all population groups. After
all, the small-scale availability of social infrastructure contributes
significantly to quality of life and the compatibility of work and
family life. Thus Vienna will strengthen the existing variety of
centres and sub-centres and create impulses for both economic
prosperity and quality of life. Concomitantly and following the goal
of adequately utilising urban structures and strengthening their
functionality and centrality, urban areas that today still are elusive
in-between spaces in the urban fabric will be upgraded and
evolved.
The polycentric city – Vienna’s
centre concept | FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE |
MULTI-
MULTIFUNCTIONALITY
AS A PRINCIPLE
Urbanised!
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