Projektleitung: Maximilian Wonaschütz (Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung der ÖAW)
Fördersumme: 32.000 €
Kurzbeschreibung: Vertical greening offers a range of physical benefits that contribute to a more sustainable and desirable urban environment. These range from enhancing the microclimate by reducing heat island effects to dampening noise pollution in urban areas. Furthermore, it has the potential to lower energy costs by providing insulation and reducing the need for artificial cooling or heating. Lastly, vertical greening can enhance the aesthetic appeal and value of a property, resulting in an overall improvement in the quality of densely built up neighborhoods.
In order to achieve climate goals and enhance climate resilience, cities such as Vienna are working towards establishing subsidy schemes to provide incentives for building owners to implement such nature-based-solutions (NBS). The participation of urban actors and the communication with stakeholders, particularly that of property owners, is an important prerequisite for successful participatory and co-creative urban development processes.
Therefore, project PLOVGIS aims to perform an analysis that evaluates the citywide potential for facade greening on a highly detailed level based on property owners as well as other structural parameters such as sidewalk widths or building heights. These findings are to be published as a web map that serves the purpose of low threshold access and raising awareness in local governance institutions.
Projektleitung: AnnaKajosaari, Alois Humer (Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung der ÖAW)
Fördersumme: 73.000 €
Kurzbeschreibung: OBJECTIVE: Urban blue spaces provide a wide range of regulating, supporting, and provisioning ecosystem services as well as cultural ecosystem services contributing to human health, wellbeing, and quality of life. As this evidence-base expands, the future challenges lay in translating it into actionable knowledge for local planning practice and spatial decision making. BLUEMAP posits that such urban transitions are not realized exclusively on the level of public and private institutions but require also collaborative efforts involving citizens and citizen knowledge. To work towards this aim, BLUEMAP develops and applies a research framework that integrates a citizen perspective into the development and maintenance of urban blue spaces and infrastructure. METHODS: BLUEMAP applies geographic information and quantitative spatial analysis to study and map the accessibility, availability, and use of Viennese blue spaces from a citizen perspective. The project will employ advanced digital participatory mapping methods to capture citizen’s views on the quality, ecosystem services, and potential development of blue spaces as geographic information. As a key empirical contribution, BLUEMAP will develop digital participatory mapping surveys for the residents of 2-3 Viennese focus areas. OUTCOMES: Project results will contribute to the international literature on the role of urban blue infrastructure in planning for healthy, liveable, and resilient cities. Moreover, the project provides local place-based knowledge of the perceived quality of Viennese blue spaces and pioneers digital participatory mapping methods in Viennese citizen engagement practices.
Projektleitung: Angelika Psenner (Technische Universität Wien)
Fördersumme: 70.000 €
Kurzbeschreibung: Liveable cities of the future require a re-reading and re-thinking of space to find new modes of sustainable, efficient and integrative distribution of urban spaces to ensure a social-ecological and inclusive environment.
SSSEIC provides an innovative tool for reconceptualizing urban public space. The fundamental premise for this is that we do not consider public street space on its own, i.e. detached from the buildings and systems surrounding it, but that we see, analyse, investigate & treat streetscapes as an immanent part of the urban parterre (which is the fabric of streets, building ground floors, souterrains & courtyards together).
Not only since the beginning of the present crisis surge (health, climate, economic, political etc.), various disciplines have been researching urban public space with the aim of (re)designing it to enable the mixed, inclusive, climate-neutral, circular, compact city (i.e. 15mC). There are already a large number of useful manuals on the reorganisation of urban street space. But they all deal exclusively with the street space itself, as if it were not part of a larger entity that we experience as city or more precisely as URBAN PARTERRE.
Based on the Urban Parterre Modelling UPM approach, a completely new representation and hence the possibility for a new systematisation of public street space is undertaken. SSSEIC thus offers a fundamental, hitherto non-existent basis for any further inter- and transdisciplinary examination of urban space.
Projektleitung: Erwin Rosenberg (Technische Universität Wien)
Fördersumme: 75.000 €
Kurzbeschreibung: This project aims to develop a comprehensive sampling and analysis strategy forthe characterisation of odorous events in the city of Vienna. This odour characterisation, together with the time and location of its occurrence shall be stored in a geographical information system (GIS) and be retrievable for later use for a variety of purposes, including the planning of urban development or improvement of urban infrastructure.
Air sampling will be performed by a drone-based platform with a proprietary designed whole-air sampler. The air sample is brought to the laboratory and subjected to olfactometric and instrumental (TD-GC/MS) analysis. The former provides a sensory characterisation of the sample while the latter separates, characterizes and quantifies the individual constituents of the odorous mixture with high sensitivity on a molecular level, thereby objectively characterizing this sample.
The sampling process is initiated by logging an observation (including description and localisation) in the web-based interface of a GIS. This system has already been set up for the Citizen Science project “Wien der Nase nach” with whose project team a close collaboration is sought. There is a strong synergy between the two projects, as the existing one is providing the user interface and the GIS, allowing to record a description of the odour event, while the one proposed here provides a comprehensive chemical characterization (qualitative and quantitative) of the air sample taken on site.