Stadtkern_PLUS

Sustainable and Socially Innovative Quarter Development in a Mixed-Use City Center

In the Stadtkern_PLUS project, resource communities are established in old buildings with the intention to have a social, inclusive, and sustainable impact on the neighborhood. The research and demonstration area is located in the 2nd and 20th districts of Vienna. It borders on the Nord- and the Nordwestbahnhof urban development areas and is congruent with the future program area of WieNeu+ by the City of Vienna.

Project Objectives:

  • Connecting space seekers and space users.
  • Activating potentials in the monofunctional, disadvantaged old building area by establishing locally connected and sustainability-oriented resource communities in the ground floor or podium zone.
  • A user-led management of spaces aims to promote a resilient, resource-efficient and socially integrative site development while combating ground floor vacancies.
  • The concrete implementation examples (demonstrations) generate communal value through their sustainable activities on-site, their visibility, and the associated knowledge transfer, positively impacting the environment.
  • Novel local usage and operator models encompass social integrative and democracy-promoting measures, as well as digital tools for networking and empowering local stakeholders.

Challenge/Background:

  • In the existing city, there is no ground floor zone management, as already tested in the new development areas of Seestadt Aspern and Nordbahnhof.
  • For interested small businesses, spatially fragmented monofunctional structures and repeatedly capitalized space offerings in the existing city are unaffordable and social networks lacking diversity are less attractive.
  • Social and technological changes require sustainable measures and models to counteract further spatial separation of living and working.
  • Integration into the concurrently ongoing urban renewal program WieNeu+ by the City of Vienna and a network of local stakeholders.

 

Project Consortium:

future.lab Research Center TU Wien (Konsortialführung)
Forschungsbereich Rechtswissenschaften TU Wien
die morgenjungs GmbH
Volkshilfe Wien
MA 25 Stadt Wien gemeinsam mit Gebietsbetreuung Stadterneuerung - Stadtteilbüro für die Bezirke 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 20

In Cooperation With:

Kreative Räume Wien
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
Wirtschaftskammer Wien

Contact:

Chrisian Peer (Projektleitung)
christian.peer@tuwien.ac.at

Elena Freisleben
elena.freisleben@tuwien.ac.at

Mara Haas
mara.haas@tuwien.ac.at

Laura Sandner
laura.sandner@tuwien.ac.at

The project is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund and carried out as part of the „Leuchttürme für resiliente Städte 2040 - Ausschreibung 2021“ program. The duration is 36 months (03/2022 - 02/2025).