RIGHT BANK OF THE DANUBE IN VIENNA
The hot spot-project "Right bank of the Danube in Vienna" is a project of international co-operation between participants from universities and representatives of public administration which also involved local residents in the process of collecting information. Intensive talks about co-operation and funding were held with representatives of various Vienna city council departments. In addition, students from university institutes in Budapest (Prof. Csemez), Belgrade, Bratislava (lecturer Kattos) and Vienna (Prof. Potyka) participated in the project.(1) In a design workshop from 7 to 11 May 2001 the planning was done on the spot.

Four test areas on the right bank of the Danube could be exploited for designing and planning. Improvements of the bank areas and a re-designing of the hinterland were the central objectives. Not only was it important to consider traditional structures of town planning but also to reflect on the tasks and solutions with a view to sustainable town planning.
A jury awarded the projects on 29 June 2001 and they will be exhibited at the "Ingenieur- und Architektenverein" afterwards. The students of the TU Vienna have already developed their own web site. This project will also be continued in the future especially with our neighbours Slovakia and Hungary but also together with the universities in Belgrade (YU) and Sumy (Ukraine).
As part of our university co-operation, Prof. Csemez from the Budapest University visited open space design projects of the hot spot-group in Krems together with his students in May 2000. Moreover, Prof. Csemez visited Deggendorf with a large student group from 17 to 18 April 2000. They were received by the mayor, saw the banks of the Danube and had talks at the Fachhochschule Deggendorf.
Here you find so more fact about the hot spot from Vienna designed by students from the Technical University of Vienna. They made some designs for parts of the right riverbank of the Danube in Vienna and created their own websides for these projects.

(1) Cf. POTYKA, Hugo (2001): Hot Spots - Neue Ufer in den Städten, Beitrag Wien. Ein Studentenwettbewerb. Wien: IFL (manuscript)

(2) The first picture, the left small one and the one below are from the Slovakian students form Bratislava

(3) The other two pictures are from: GRASL, Dagmar, PLESSL,Gerhard (2000): Hot Spots - Brigittenauer Sporn,