TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

THE METROPOLITAN REGION
3.2
DA–IK
SUSTAINABLE CO-OPERATION
FOCUS
Co-operation within the city region
enhances the positive image vis-à-vis
the world outside and strengthens the
region’s position in the international
competition between locations. At the
same time, it helps to alleviate negative
effects, e. g. in the field of environment
and transport as well as regarding
infrastructure costs, by means of tap ped
synergies and fine-tuned measures.
For this reason, a task of the hour lies
in making use of the existing experience
with co-operation (e. g. in the context
of the spatial planning board Planungsgemeinschaft
Ost (PGO ), Vienna
Region , City-Environs Management
(SUM ) and Verkehrsverbund Ost-
Region (VOR )), to better exploit
colla bo ration potentials in many areas,
for instance in regional planning, transport
planning and location development,
but also in resource management or
open space systems.
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
FOR THE CITY REGION
The reality of the metropolitan region
calls for governance structures that add
aspects of city-region interests to the
historically evolved administrative structures
of merely locally oriented authorities.
It must be possible to link the
interests of the individual municipalities
within the region with those of the
metropolitan region as a whole and to
emphasise the assets that will result
from this co-operation. Collaboration
taps advantages, but these will only
become tangible through binding, robust
and fair mechanisms.
SAFEGUARD & CONCENTRATE
RESOURCES
The Vienna metropolitan area is the
Austrian region with the biggest population
and the greatest economic clout
by far. For this reason, the City of Vienna
is convinced that regional, national and
European funds must be used in targeted
fashion for the development above
all of infrastructure. This requires finetuning,
co-ordination and proactive
joint lobbying efforts at the national and
European levels by Vienna, Lower Austria
and Burgenland.
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