Water City Vienna - Transitioning Towards Climate Resiliency

This thesis project explores the imperative of strenghening Vienna's climate resilience through mitigating weather extremes and fostering knowledge of them by reimagining its current water and ecosystem dynamics. The central focus is on integrating a blue-green infrastructure into the urban environment and a just distribution of their services,...

The Remembered City: towards reclaiming a collective ground within Vienna’s inner city

Based in Vienna, Austria, the project deals with the possibilities a new type of public interior has for a gradually flattened historic city centre, concentrating on the role of derelict spaces such as abandoned shop spaces, aggressively demolished building plots or undervalued topographies in this instance an underground car parking have once...

Disrupting the gendered order: How to advance beyond Vienna’s strategic approach to gender mainstreaming in urban planning

The challenges women encounter due to numerous disparities within social superstructures are finally finding their way into mainstream debates. Interestingly, Vienna is the first European city that has been incorporating the concept of gender mainstreaming into urban planning practices since the 1990s, by providing formal platforms for women to...

Remembrance to Repression: Public Space, memorial landscape and collective memory in post-WWII Vienna

In his influential work ‘On collective Memory’, French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs described an intrinsic relationship between the past and present, a reconfiguration of the perceived past through the lens of its current generation’s ideas and experiences. This represents an increasing challenge in the urban realm due to the growing amount of...

Who owns public spaces? The trailblazer exhibition on women’s everyday life in the City of Vienna (1991)

This article contributes to shedding light, documenting, and disseminating a pioneer event that has not been part of the recorded history of urban planning. In 1991, two feminist engineers working at the City of Vienna’s Urban Planning Office organized a ground-breaking exhibition with the aim of understanding gender bias in urban design. The...

Polarized Vienna: Democracy and Public Space in the Urban Periphery

The urban periphery of Vienna is becoming increasingly dense and its population increasingly diverse. These rapid changes contribute to new conflicts and political polarization. Inclusive spaces can help democratic and diverse societies to deal with these challenge. However, no comprehensive model of centrality has emerged in the periphery until...

Synesthesia: An Exploration of Architectural Experience as Expressed by Music

The project is situated in the city of Vienna, Austria, and attempts to connect two divided quarters of the city. Over the years inhabitants from both sides of the city have become more disconnected. By retelling the story of Maurice Ravel's 'La Valse' in an architectural sculpture, I will attempt t reconnect the two groups of people. Using...

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

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...

The Dancing Boundary: Towards regional development of the border land between Bratislava and Vienna

The border land has always been where a country ends, designated as the "End of the Plan". It also draws a line between people from different sides of the space. However, the introduction of the euro and Schengen treaty has brought us an opportunity for transfrontier spatial development which may establish a new relationship in the border land....

Integrated high-resolution stratigraphy: Relative contributions of tectonics, eustasy and climate on basin evolution (Vienna Basin, Austria)

Sedimentary basins form in a range of large-scale tectonic settings involving extensional, compressional or lateral movements. The dynamics of the basin infill are controlled by driving mechanisms such as tectonics, climate and eustatic control. The created accommodation space in the basin is filled by sediments that formed by erosion in the...

A global economic integration zone in Central Europe? Vienna-Bratislava-Györ as a laboratory for EU territorial cohesion policy

Central Europe is facing dramatic changes and huge challenges since the 40 years closed borders opened up. As part of central Europe the Vienna-Bratislava-Gyor area that straddles Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, faces new opportunities for co-operation and integration. The book gives a fascinating view of the practice of European policy making on...

Vienna-Rotterdam: Forging the Future Urban strategies compared

De rol van de publieke planning en de mogelijkheid (en ook de wenselijkheid) om de stedelijke ontwikkeling in het postindustriële tijdperk te sturen zijn de centrale thema's van de conferentie "Vienna - Rotterdam: Forging the Future". De conferentie wordt georganiseerd door de bouwkundefaculteiten van de TU Delft en TU Eindhoven in samenwerking...