TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

3 VIENNA: REACHING BEYOND ITS BORDERS
PRODUCTION CITY
KNOWLEDGE CITY
RESEARCH CITY
The concentration of research, science, development and hightech
production in shared or well-networked locations facilitates
the building of innovation networks, in whose context research
and application mutually inspire and advance each other. To
further the emergence of such innovation networks, the specific
location requirements of different industries must be taken
account of.
To be able to offer the best spaces and locations for manifold
needs, close co-operation between public institutions, universities,
universities of applied sciences, research institutions and enterprises
as well as suitable instruments and competencies of the
city administration are inter alia called for. For this reason, Vienna
wants to encourage co-operation ventures and to develop as
well as fine-tune sets of instruments that create optimised spatial
preconditions for Vienna as a hub of business and science.
FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE
SAFEGUARDING AND MANAGING
LAND RESERVES FOR INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
To protect Vienna’s economic position
in the long run, it is necessary
to reserve both existing industrial
zones and set new areas aside
for industrial production (for example
by means of the Viennese
Analysis of Industrial and Commercial
Areas ). Currently, the
pressure to reclassify plots suited
for production and industrial purposes
as housing and office land
is massive; the City of Vienna
decidedly opposes this pressure.
( Fig.8: Mission Statement for
Urban Development “Zone for enterprises
not suitable for mixed use“)
To ensure that there will be suitable locations and adequate conditions for all
economic sectors, to promote industries with special future viability and to make
use of potentials for synergy as well as to support targeted location and incentive
strategies, appropriate industrial zones are to be reserved by means of provisions
in the land use and zoning plan and/or agreements under private law. Types of
use that would hamper corresponding uses of such sites will be prevented.
Identification and development of adequate, additional plots to be used at short
notice for industrial and commercial locations in close consultation between the
Administrative Group for Urban Planning, Traffic & Transport, Climate Protection,
Energy and Public Participation and the Vienna Business Agency.
Assessment of the practicability of compensation measures in case of changed
use of industrial and commercial areas – e. g. by means of a fee or the creation/
provision of substitute plots.
Development and application of an objective and transparent evaluation procedure
regarding the reclassification of existing industrial and commercial areas.
Establishment of active quarter management offices based on the “Standpunkt
Liesing” model in order to tap potentials for co-operation between enterprises and
to actively promote and market locations.
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