Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Aperto. Per un ritratto dello spazio aperto / Open. For a portrait of open space
(scegliere il) Paesaggio / (choosing) Landscape

Lo spazio aperto tra cambiamento climatico e società. Il caso della ‘città satellite’ di Aspern

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  • Alessandro Gabbianelli,
  • Luca Montuori
Alessandro Gabbianelli
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italia
Luca Montuori
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17051

Published 2025-10-28

Keywords

  • Open space,
  • New Town,
  • Aspern Seestadt,
  • Urban heat islands,
  • Climate change,
  • Landscape design
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Gabbianelli, A., & Montuori, L. (2025). Lo spazio aperto tra cambiamento climatico e società. Il caso della ‘città satellite’ di Aspern. Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture, 23(1), 264–281. https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17051

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Abstract

The district of Aspern Seestadt, located north-east of Vienna, offers the opportunity for an in-depth reflection on the planning of new urban neighbourhoods in relation to the mitigation of the effects of the climate crisis and the need to ensure a lively and sustainable urban space. Focusing on the characteristics of open space, the article analyses the heat island mitigation guidelines that guided the design of the neighbourhood and the theories developed by Jan Gehl on ‘life between buildings’ and tries to verify their applicability to the design strategies of the parks implemented so far.

The question arises as to whether the Aspern Seestadt project is really inspired by a sustainable urban design approach or whether, rather, an urban model is being pursued that guarantees reassuring, conflict-free, familiar, exclusive spaces (only for certain social groups), but which, in fact, generate a generic landscape.

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