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Historic trunk roads are formative elements of the urban fabric that play central infrastructural and functional roles. As public-owned linear spaces, they hold great transformation potential, especially when considered in conjunction with the adjacent urban fabric - for example with regard to mobility transition and climate change adaptations. Despite urban planning sovereignty in Vienna, arterial streets are still treated as linear traffic corridors, reinforcing spatial-functional separation rather than integrating them as inclusive public spaces. Hence, this study moves beyond standard cross-sections to explore the reciprocal relationship between street space and urban fabric in Vienna. It adopts a mixed-method approach, incorporating qualitative research, mapping, spatial analysis, and typology formation to identify challenges and opportunities of these streetscapes. The paper aims to illustrate the complexity of spatial, social and functional relations between neighborhoods and street space to open up new perspectives for sustainable transformations.
By analyzing historic development and spatio-functional interfaces between streetscapes and other urban systems, the paper identifies overarching structural characteristics and thus leading to categorization of streetscape typologies in Vienna. Subsequently, a comparative analysis focuses on the morphological aspects of these typologies. The range of impact of relations between street space and urban fabric is analyzed, particularly with regard to porosity and programming. Does the urban morphology relate to the quality and use of public space? Which public and semipublic space foster relations between streetscape and hinterland? What are factors for separation? What are typical threshold spaces or special elements in interconnected zones?
In the further course of the work, the analysis is deepened in selected key spaces in order to reveal exemplary activities, patterns of action and neighborly relations in the tension field of built space, programming and everyday use. Through the systematic cataloguing and assessment of processes and relations at different scales, the Viennese streetscapes are taken out of their proverbial urban periphery and made accessible to experts. The cross-scale and integrated perspective of the research illustrates the potentials but also the challenges of the streetscapes of Vienna's historic trunk roads, which should provide new research impulses and enrich the public discourse beyond Vienna.
| Keywords | Streetscape ; Urban Fabric; Typologies; Morphology; Transformation |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
