Metropolitan Region Vienna-Bratislava, rethinking the dispersed territory in-between the two capital cities

Metropolitan Region Vienna-Bratislava, rethinking the dispersed territory in-between the two capital cities

Überbacher, A.

Nadin, V. (mentor)
Wandl, A. (mentor)
Viganó, P. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism (EMU)

2017-06-26

This thesis was written in the course of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism – Strategies and Design for Cities and Territories (EMU) at the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The research analyses the spatial condition and the planning system in the dispersed territory between the two capital cities Vienna and Bratislava. Further, the thesis offers an alternative approach to guide the on-going urban transformation process in the dispersed territory between Vienna in Austria and Bratislava in Slovakia. In particular the work is dedicated to the question to what extend it is possible to foster more sustainability in the territory, while at the same time providing enough space for the growing population in the territory. The therefore established framework for a more sustainable region consists of a design research part on regional and local scale including a sustainable growth concept, and recommendations for the planning system. The proposal not only offers the opportunity to rethink the territory by using design as a research tool, but also combines this methodology with a reflection on the existing strategic planning in the territory and its output in space.

Vienna
Bratislava
dispersed territories
dispersion
Concept Horizontal Metropolis
urban sprawl
territory in-between
metropolitan territory Vienna-Bratislava
research based design
urbanism

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2018-08-31

Student theses

master thesis

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