Why Vienna gets high marks

This essay reviews the political circumstances and strategic orientations of Vienna's comprehensive urban development policy, and how the EIB's investments facilitated key projects and supported Vienna's process of urban modernisation. Urban development in Vienna took place in four cycles, which are characterised by distinctive internal and external conditions and opportunities. Each prompted different levels of EIB engagement.

Dr. Eugen Antalovsky is a managing director at UIV Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH. As a researcher, consultant, author, and moderator, Antalovsky is active in the realms of urban and site development, integration and social inclusion, democracy and participation, and city tourism and international relations. Urban Innovation Vienna is a research, consulting and service company for cities on urban and smart city issues. He was previously managing director of europaforum wien for more than 20 years. He works internationally as a senior expert and advisor, for example to the European Commission's European Spatial Planning Observatory Network and the Regional Planning Association in New York. Jana Löw, M.A., is a researcher at UIV Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH. She completed Master's studies at the University of Edinburgh and at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisations.