Understanding Professionals, Politicians and The Society in The Motorized World - and How To Help Them

The paper is a summary about the paradigm change which is on the way in the motorized society and the related professions today. How the enormous losses of human life from accidents and air pollution as well as the degradation or the urban environment are tolerated gives rise to the question, what is wrong in the related disciplines of transport and urban planning. A brief summary about findings from interdisciplinary research the last five decades describes the way to a better understanding why human behavior has been affected by cars and what chances we have to escape from this ldquoevolutionary traprdquo of this technological and technical progress. The empirical results of the application of these research findings in many cities are finally listed in a comparison between ldquopositiverdquo and ldquonegativerdquo effects on cities, human societies and cultures and the environment

Perspective Vienna - a Comparison of Planning Scenarios and Real Development

With the suspension of national boarders in unions of nations, cities and their regions gain in significance for the economic, social and cultural development. This is particularly valid for Vienna, which lies close to the eastern boarder of the European Union, which should fall with the enlargement of EU in the near future. Of prominent importance is therefore to obtain a comprehensive understanding between proposed and defined aims for an urban development, the related measures and their extent ofimplementations and their actual or real effects. This paper attempts to give a strategic analysis of the Viennese urban and traffic development programs, from 1962, 1972, 1984 and 1994, on the one hand, and the data analysis of the statistical year books beginning from 1960 until 2000, on the other. The results show that adjustments have been made not only in response to certain trends, but also to a change of philosophy of urban development. It can be seen that certain assumptions of, for example, economic and transport measures can have the opposite outcome in relation to the intended objectives. Hence, one main question remains to beanswered: How should Vienna deal with the challenges ahead, to secure and foster a sustainable development under such circumstances on a long-term basis. In this respect, some measures are given, which should make it possible to overcome successfully these challenges

The conundrum of the motorcycle in the mix of sustainable urban transport

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