Target group-orientated urban planning

Stadt Fair Teilen – Target group oriented city planning

The city is a multi-layered structure. Urban structures and mobility conditions as well as the availability of social and green infrastructure have a decisive influence on living conditions. Vienna is internationally recognised for the breadth and methodological depth of its gender planning approaches.

The lecture will trace the long history of target-group oriented planning in Vienna and its influence on urban development, which began 33 years ago with the exhibition “Who owns public space – everyday life for women in the city”. The diverse thematic and methodological approaches and their concrete added value are illustrated by numerous Viennese examples. The impending post-fossil transformation of urban structures poses a great challenge, but also offers great potential for many different groups when viewed through a gender lens.

In Vienna, gender-sensitive approaches have been most consistently implemented in the design of parks and playgrounds. Based on six pilot projects, four of which were co-determined, an evaluation produced guidelines that have since formed the basis for all new planning and redesign.

Seestadt Aspern, a 240-hectare former airfield, is one of the largest and most ambitious urban development projects in Europe. In this new urban district, the already established gender planning approaches of quality assurance were also applied. The qualities and concrete effects in everyday life can be observed in the already built neighbourhoods.

Lecture in German