European urban planners are faced with a paradox: While the rural population continues to be drawn to the cities, the desire for larger and higher-quality residential and leisure areas is increasing at the same time. As the space available – especially in densely populated areas – is limited, this results in a space problem. The Vienna University of Technology’s Department of Landscape Planning and Garden Art would like to address this issue and has organized an event to this end. The focus is on the following question:
How will it be possible to do justice to the increasing importance of urban green and open spaces despite the need for denser development in cities? And how can we resolve this apparent contradiction?
Lectures and excursions
Strategies for dealing with dwindling space reserves will be presented on the first day of the conference. Well-known players from planning offices and urban planning departments will describe their approaches in a total of eight presentations. On the second day, participants will go outside: two excursions to Vienna’s Stuwerviertel and Seestadt Aspern will present various strategies for open space planning. Participants must pay a fee of €120 (€100 early bird, until 31.05.2017), although students can attend free of charge.
Registration is possible until 08.09.2017 here!
