Vienna's open spaces in plans and fotos

Vienna's urban landscape changed fundamentally in the second half of the 20th century. Under the programmatic slogan “social green”, numerous parks, open spaces for educational institutions and outdoor areas for multi-storey residential buildings were created in Vienna from 1950 onwards. In the 1970s to 1990s, international competitions were organized (e.g. Karlsplatz), large-scale new recreational spaces were created (e.g. Danube area, Wienerberg), play streets were laid out and rivers (e.g. Liesingbach) were renatured. Today, these projects represent key elements in the green space system of the City of Vienna. The Archive of Austrian Landscape Architecture LArchive preserves thousands of analogue plans and photos of these projects. The stock of plans and photos represents a unique cultural heritage, but has so far only been available in analogue form. As part of this project, high-quality digital copies of plans and photos documenting the planning and design of Vienna's open spaces from the second half of the 20th century will be produced and published in an online collection. The thus generated data will form an essential basis for the evaluation and further development of urban green structures in the context of national and international research projects and - at Viennese level - for the revision of the STEP 2025 urban development plan. At the same time, the archival material will be made accessible to a broad audience of scientists, teachers, colleagues from the field, local authorities, art historians and citizens via the online collection. The data will be transferred to the online platform for Austria's cultural heritage and to Europeana. Publication of the digitised material will raise the profile of the Archive of Austrian Landscape Architecture and the impact of the profession.