TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

STEP 2025
In order to allow for high-quality urban development and to consolidate
Vienna’s position in the regional and international context,
it is essential to formulate clearcut planning goals and to regularly
evaluate the guidelines and strategies of the city. In 2011,
the Vienna City Council changed the City Administration with the
preparation of a new Urban Development Plan, to be submitted
for adoption by 2014.
In our time, however, urban development also means to co-ordinate
and manage governmental, societal and economic actors.
As presented in this publication, STEP 2025 has a predominantly
strategic character and, instead of a map-like planning outline,
provides a multifaceted and also motivating overview of measures
to steer Vienna’s development. It highlights the direction developments
will take and lays the cornerstone for key fields of action
of the city, such as housing, green and open spaces, economy, or
infrastructure.
Urban development corresponding to smart city goals necessitates
the support of motivated and competent collaborators. For
this reason, STEP 2025 was formulated under the aegis of Municipal
Department 18 in an intensive process of dialogue that involved
a great number of experts, both of the planning bodies and,
cutting across executive policy groups, of many other municipal
departments as well as from outside the Vienna City Administration.
The outstanding specialised knowledge and commitment
of all actors has ultimately resulted in a product that constitutes
an important basis for the positive development of Vienna in the
future, for which we express our sincere thanks.
Erich Hechtner
Chief Executive Director
Brigitte Jilka
Director General of Urban Planning,
Development and Construction
Thomas Madreiter
Director of Urban Planning