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II Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. instrumente hinsichtlich ihrer ihrer hinsichtlich instrumente ihre Rahmen im Städte jeweiligen die wie beantwortet, zunächst wird erschein China und wachs in Europa Hochhausentwicklungen jüngsten der Interpretation für repräsentativ auch trotzdem H vielerlei in die Shanghai, und Wien wie Städte zweier Vergleich Der dem diskutiert,vor Hintergrund welche benötigt undgewünscht wird. die Qualität der städtischen Umgebung städtischen der Qualität die in bestehende, traditionelle Stadtstruktur Einbettung und Lage die beinhalten Diskussionen wiederspiegelt. Krit in sich die dar, Thematik sensible eine Orten beiden an diese einen Beitrag zur Beantwortung der Frage leisten, wie hoh wie leisten, Frage der Beantwortung zur Beitrag einen Obwohl sich die Hochhausentwicklung in Shanghai völlig von jene von völlig Shanghai in Hochhausentwicklung die sich Obwohl J beiden letzten den Bedeutung gewonnen. in allem vor haben Wohnhochhäuser auch hoher Effizienz zugesprochen wird, ist das Hochhaus. Nicht diesem Zusammenhang offensichtlich Städte weltweit erobert hat Ein manifestieren. Hinsicht physischer und sozialer in sich und Veränderungen zuletzt nicht die Strategien, Folge weiterer soz Einfluss, wechselseitigem tan unter und Menschen stetig auch sich entwickeln als Umwelt sowohl die Wachs städtische Herausforderungen, Das Wien. auch als Shanghai sowohl betrifft zuvor. je als intensiver Unterbrechung, zwischenzeitlicher unterschie in eingebettet wenngleich jetzt, ist und erreicht jeweiligen qualitativ hochwertigen städtischen Umgebung leistet. Dies ermö Nachfrage steigenden zur Wohnhochhaus das Beitrag welchen Vernetzung u Kontinente dadurch rücken und Verbindungen transnationale die wie Projekte stärken Globalisierung der Deckmantel dem Unter ABSTRACT clsebgif: ohas Ubnseug wcsne Städte wachsende Urbanisierung, Hochhausentwicklung, Wohnhochhaus Hochhaus, f Empfehlungen Schlüsselbegriffe: um herangezogen, Resultate die Hochhausentwicklungen imBereich derRaumplanung werden Schließlich NutzerInnenvon Meinung der dieEinbeziehung insbesonderedurch wshn uoa n Cia a bris o 10 arn e Jahren 100 vor bereits hat China und Europa zwischen Ansätze e Hochhausentwicklun der

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。 运行机制 和中国的城市。通过 现高密度和紧凑城市 高层建筑。 同的质疑以及批判。这些讨论包括有高层建筑的合适位置 越来越多的关注。 这类建筑不单是指混合功能的建筑,更是用于居住的高层建筑。这类建筑在近几年都受到 筑可以在本文所提及的全球范围内的所有城市中建造,并且被认为是可以极大提高效率。 都展现出城市之间互惠的特性。其中,产生有一种特殊的建筑类型——高层建筑,这类建 此基础上,通过动态发展以及不断更新的政策,各自城市的形态都产生了变化。这些变化 影响。这种扩张固然可以被认为是城市发展的基础,但同时城市化也会忽视人和环境。在 也纳都经历着城市的不断扩张,这反映了全球化下的城市化对这两个城市都产生了很大的 生了较为紧张的关系,以及选择了不同的结构模式。我们可以通过许多数据发现上海和维 国之间的紧密联系可以追溯到一百年前并且延续至今,即使是在这期间曾经被中断并且产 例如 ABSTRACT chin 键词 的 规划 首先 由 访谈而 本文 通过聚焦于这一特殊的建筑类型 虽然高层建筑的发展在上海和维也纳有着非常大的区别 “ 近十年来全球化进程进一步推进 : 此 一带一路 中的高层建筑发展相关 ,本文 高层建筑 得 将比 。其

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transport situation or average living average or situation transport were , p. 215). Until then, Shanghai’s key Shanghai’s then, Until 215). p. , t change in 1991 when the city was city the when 1991 in change t y the conversion from the previous the from conversion the y hich hich is why the foreign influence on 06, p. 186). When the Communists the When 186). p. 06, River, foreign as well as domestic as well as foreign River, der Mao derZedung Mao was founded, the e. That did not only shape the era era the shape only not did That e. e and trade centers. The city again i started to undergo fundamental undergo to started i le to maintain itself. During this During itself. maintain to le n te iys eeomn was development city’s the and faced by Shanghai and Western s (Forrest and Izuhara, 2012, p. 2012, Izuhara, and (Forrest s . 9- 13).

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underlies a certain reciprocity as Shanghai functions as as functions Shanghai as reciprocity certain a underlies 5 resented in one Pavilion as well (“Österreich , Chinas foreign direct investment gained trend of globalization and China’s open- dvantageous location, the city has always of the Shanghai World Expo under the time, the city represents a key junction key a represents city the time, 21) and the project of 1 Cit 1 of project the and 21) design which then was applied on each periencing another boost of foreign foreign of boost another periencing housing sector (Forrest and Izuhara, Izuhara, and (Forrest sector housing (Sha (Sha et al., 2014b, p. 18) which entails ted to major events in the last three last the in events major to ted China has experienced a large influx influx large a experienced has China ghai explored models for urbanizing urbanizing for models explored ghai ommercial ommercial housing for the domestic lanning. However, Shanghai gained Shanghai However, lanning. sto. hs i cniuly must continually it Thus, osition. l financial center, it is constantly is it center, financial l udies, 2 the 20 the been expanding its geographic geographic its expanding been 018) th century, particularly at particularly century, t a hundred yearst hundred later. a . ontroversial ontroversial project y 9 Towns, Towns, 9 y Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Vienna h respective the of understanding an and discussion further prevailing differences are going to be elaborated. This proc 1.2 d hs chapter This moreover, significantly surpassed the value of Europe’s inv Europe’s in of value the investments surpassed significantly China’s moreover, of value the result, a As 2013. in with the announcement and implementation of the Belt and Road In p growth impressive an had have investments outward Chinese the into euros of billions invested having companies European even declining since 2015 (Hanemann and Huotari, 2017, pp. pp. 2017, Huotari, and (Hanemann 2015 since declining even Europe had on China at the beginning of the 20 the of beginning the at China on had Europe t to quite leads and significance major a gained has Europe on hnhi n Ven i ti tei i bidn o toe ulnd p outlined those relations on building is thesis this in Vienna and Shanghai framework socio-spatial their within changes implies similarly which interconnec to intensified actively have cities and continents -polit and socio-cultural present their concerning developments an sig differ that cities represent still Vienna and Shanghai that o each on impact and relation their increased globalization, of Overall, the continents and cities have moved closer togethe gorpi psto. hs crusacs a b se as seen be can circumstances These position. geographic d

Characterizing Shanghai and Vienna .

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estments in China, which China, in estments t with eac with t nificantly, starting from their history their from starting nificantly, Europe have constantly risen and and risen constantly have Europe 3– Chinese economy since the 1980s the since economy Chinese ther. It is important to recognize, to important is It ther. ical framework. Nevertheless, the Nevertheless, framework. ical he assumption that the influence the that assumption he articularly in recent years starting years recent in articularly 5). As a resul a As 5). h ros f ute diverse further of roots the itiative of president Xi Jinping . The comparison between comparison The . h other over the past years past the over other h eodtos f increasing of reconditions , p.5 fig.2 t, China’s influence China’s t, ) the fact that that fact the

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the changes of the built urban environment me laws of nature that might cause high- cause might that nature of laws me at the speed of wind has been decreasing ir supply. The project was never built, never was project The supply. ir d, a kind of nozzle can be created that created be can nozzle of kind a d, of Vienna. The latter demands careful demands latter The Vienna. of d dissolve. As a result, polluted air can more heat islands and therefore more e impacts high-rise buildings have on eral. eral. If high-rise buildings are built to ga cities such as Shanghai, this leads this Shanghai, as such cities ga a healthier ventilation. On the other other the On ventilation. healthier a rgy consumption, the arrangement arrangement the consumption, rgy hy those buildings curb the flux of arrangement of high-risebuildings of arrangement nerally, the risks depend risks the nerally, o 30%. If the speed of the wind the of speed the If 30%. o nig ln te aue the Danube, the along unning tilation on its surroundings. If surroundings. its on tilation d h dge o high-rise of degree the nd planned high-rise project in in project high-rise planned icmtne cause circumstances lasmann, 2004, p. 2004, lasmann, on the on nergy Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. ev o te n hn plc avsr ad n h ohr ha other the on and advisory policy hand one the on serve Shan the to responsible bureaus and offices, commissions, of governing body in the municipality is the elected municipal govern subdivisions: divisions. However, there are three main divisions that each divisions. The urban system is applied in the east of China an summarized, that the rural system is applied in west and centra syste administrational both Currently divisions. centered urban being from changing are divisions administrative the that means, been simultaneously has hierarchy of levels all at apparatus n Cogig iety otold y h cnrl oenet in government central the by controlled directly Chongqing and As a first-order, province-level administrative unit, Shanghai mu increa tremendously been have China in areas urban the As The Shanghai 1.2.3 bodiesgoverning (Boxer, 2019; 2018). Zhuo, function also as administrative links to both the national gov • • • administration in China is organized vertically and consequently f consequently and vertically organized is China in administration

the the the Prefecture-level divisions, and the County-level divisions Administration Provincial-level administrative divisions, 16

again again can be differentiated into various d the coastal areas and consists of less ernment in Beijing as well as the local in a process of readjustment. This readjustment. of process a in ghai People’s Congress. Those units Those Congress. People’s ghai l China and is characterized by many nd nd nicipality is, next to Beijing, Tianjin ig te country the sing, ms coexist and it roughly can be can roughly it and coexist ms rural centered divisions towards divisions centered rural ment of Shanghai which consists as administrative functions and and functions administrative Beijing eatures a strong hierarchy. hierarchy. strong a eatures . However, the top top the However, . ´s administrative Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Fengxian, as well as the islands Chongming, Chongxing and Hen accommodating the well-known skyline of the city. The district has river, Huangpu the borders that part, eastern its into into the Huangpu district (Ping, 2019) that fact the to due is 10, figure in area” urban “inner only why reason The Yangpu. and Hongkou Zhabei, Putuo, suburbs erpltn ein f hnhi (rvnil ee mncplt Shan municipality 6340approximately km level '(provincial Shanghai of region metropolitan known now are and population in increase continuing the to

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the the , Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Then de high-rise of evolution the considering narrative, each of the most important elements, the products of the technical bey far go would this as constructions high-rise of origins numerou the describe to aiming not is chapter this that, on relat be directly can therefore and modernization of standards However, 12). p. 2004, Klasmann, 67; p. 2018, (Glauser, ev Narratives Europe. in architecture Gothic the of buildings made been have Connections heterogeneity. great by marked the pressure, that that pressure, the construction allows to absorb the pressure of the mason is high building of prerequisite structural important most The rise development will be outlined boom, that started in the 19 the in started that boom, got riveted. Those where the technical prerequisites for aside of welding them, which lead to problems in connection with brou It 1871. in brick approximately -75%. The second problem, hollow the need of conne the of invention the by solved p first The obstacles. major two overcome to had one more, he a allow to order in but steelconstructionskeletonthe furth A as the “g the as high-rise estates firstly started towards to the more grow sky (Klas pr fall its but se per elevator the not invented who Otis, o improvement the precisely invention the by influenced largely reaches a height of 300 meters. However, the high-rise Pa in Tower Eiffel the is example famous very Another metal. made that buildings, first the of one to accounts 1881, in famous as well as the State Empire the as well as Building Chrysler famous oee, h srvn o bidn ee hge, eutd n th in resulted step next higher, the result, a even As construction. in modernization building of striving the However, the elevator the and steel skeleton the for development were profound the current technological developments which set the frame er technological development that resulted in a vertical growt vertical a in resulted that development technological er olden era of high-rise building”, ended as the great depression great the as ended building”, high-rise of era olden steel does. The palm house in the Viennese castle Schönbrun castle Viennese the in house palm The does. steel th century in Chicago and New York. This period often is refe is often period This York. New and Chicago in century .

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construction as it is implemented now, was the following vertical building development ry. Neither bricks nor concrete withstand ight development of a hundred meters or or meters hundred a of developmentight those constructions presuppose certain presuppose constructions those otection. Based on these developments, these on Based otection. usage of the high load capacity of heavy of capacity load high the of usage ond the objective of this thesis. Instead, thesis. this of objective the ond modernization, modernization, that noticeably are part velopment, are going to be illustrated. be to going are velopment, that led to new dimension in vertical in dimension new to led that s approaches considering the historic the considering approaches s en reach back to the Tower of Babel of Tower the to back reach en cting the steel beams with each other ed to technical achievements.Basedtechnical to ed the steel construction. This type of of type This construction. steel the roblem, of a too high weight was weight high too a of roblem, to the long history of the sacral sacral the of history long the to were ris which was built in 1889 and and 1889 in built was which ris f the elevator in 1854 by Elisha Elisha by 1854 in elevator the f work conditions for future high- moisture, was solved when they ght a reduction in weight of of weight in reduction a ght mann, 2004,mann, p. 17- realized in 1930. in realized dvlpet f further of development e h of high-rise buildings was buildings high-rise of h of high-rises. of started, shortly after the after shortly started, n, which was built was which n, 19) Back then, then, Back . rred to rred Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. fostered hig extremely building of drive the that means This decades. two influe tha heights, of extent outstanding an an such to development had has directly process materials This diverse process. of modernization composition the as well as materials certain process. Skyscr (“The well as construction for used been has steel tha Besides 35%. of amount an to buildings those construct concre of material construction Besidesmain thecomplex. more illustrate meters, 100 than taller buildings high-rise considering of composition The precast. with built are they 11% to and mete 100 than taller being of attribute the with high-rises construction of high-rise buildings higher than 100 meters in constitu concrete 14, figure and 13 figure in illustrated As thereforeand currently ‘only’ place 26 is on ranked the of worlds’hig Tower in Shanghai, built in 1998. It reaches a height of 42 of usage making by built was that examples spectacular most into high altitudes, allowed to make use of the best qualities t as such inventions, technical new 1980s, the in Starting (Klasmann, 2004, p. 23- Pet the i.a. include period this during built were that examples t came high) meters 300 (over buildings supertall first worlds’ façade the of return a contained modernization construction As this type of construction soon reached its limits regardin the the in Millenium Tower Vienna, following quarter in century. high-rise for model role a became soon but US the in bloom to high- result, a As 23). p. 2004, Klasmann, 68; p. 2018, s a element, independent an be to advanced and used was glass 22 pp. 2004, (Klasmann, cold and water warmth, light, against whereas weights the all on takes concrete reinforced of building was the total of theseparation façade the and cor by the availability of materials that constantly have been have constantly that materials of availability the by

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rise buildings following this concept, started concept, this following buildings rise 0 (“The Skyscraper Center,” 2019) meters rs in Vienna, consist to 89% of concrete of 89% to consist Vienna, in rs he sudden possibility to pump concrete pump to possibility sudden he the façade only functions as protection as functions only façade the e of building.a The idea was that corea aper Center,” 2019) Center,” aper t have been constructed ove constructed been have t g height development, the next step of tes the most used material within the within material used most the tes of concrete as well as steel. One of the Shanghai Shanghai as well as in Vienna. Existing t, 3% steel/concrete as well as 4% of of 4% as well as steel/concrete 3% t, bearing weight again. As a result, the result, a As again. weight bearing a combined system, is the Jin Mao Mao Jin the is system, combined a construction material in Shanghai Shanghai in material construction – d in figure 1 figure in d 23) te, composites have been used toused been te,compositeshave ronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur Lumpur Kuala in Towers ronas raiain Te ot famous most The realization. o developments over the globe i.a. globe the over developments o-called “curtain-wall” (Glauser, “curtain-wall” o-called h, was firstly enabled and and enabled firstly was h, . Thus, lighter material such as as such material lighter Thus, . nce on the vertical building building vertical the on nce subject to the modernization modernization the to subject hest buildings. ae en ujc t the to subject been have 3, appears to be a a be to appears 3, . The presence of of presence The . r the past the r then then little Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. means that limitations have changed constantly. have buildings result, a As respect. every in higher building att ongoing the and possible as high as building of endeavor illustrates comparison This Wright. by Illinois’ High ‘Mile the on supposed to reach a height of more than a kilometer and at Sau in realization to comes presently tower, mile-high a building meters (“The Skyscraper Center,” 2019). As a result, t Kahlifa, Burj the of construction the with hat development The constant improvement of materials and construction tec 3.3 to withstand the wind, the construction is confronted with confronted is construction the wind, the withstand to how consider modernization of questions context, this In wind. The strive of building even higher is limited by the currently b When comparing Shanghai to Vienna in its high-rise development, high-rise its in Vienna to Shanghai comparing When

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ltwith first reasing reasing wind speed especially in greater mpact limits. Hence, on the one hand hand one the on Hence, limits. mpact and her hand to revitalize the city cen city the revitalize to hand her ngement and the location of buildings truction of high-rise buildings from from buildings high-rise of truction sed to be an urban element that can can that element urban an be to sed e usage of materials. Glass and steel and Glass materials. of usage e ise construction today which in fact, n extraordinarily high building, has has building, high extraordinarily n the strive for technical innovation ts, but also the development of of development the also but ts, le, in the center of discussion. It discussion. of center the in le, o e motn nt ny when only not important be to eded. ance of ecological sustainability, g wind. Those differences stem differences Those wind. g ies embedded are in (Karr, 2019) (Karr, ees cnieig the considering heless, .Secondly, the . on the on

ter. ter. Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. equally argued, that it is important to control the width of a of width the control to important is it that argued, equally urban ideal an represent not do therefore and pedestrians perc human to adapted not are buildings high-rise that argued, 2 (Shin, space public valuable of preservation the promotes Providing Providing populated built environment, it is necessary to provide an ade city. a of space open the influences effects societal of infrastructu new additional building than facilities existing already low extremely held be can supply water or system transport infrastr city, the of middle the in infrastructure existing an of land encourages multipurpose trips which again can reduce mixed- a creating of aspect This is why, the societal effects occur to be as importan environment. municipal administrations. As high-rise buildings offer a high building high a offer buildings high-rise As administrations. municipal qua the comprise not should similarly but 300) p. 2009, (Shin, construction high-rise Consequently, vertically. importantly etc entertainment and culture accommodation, business, example effe extremely be to appears building high-rise a of typology du as well as day the during occupancy constant a of means sho it why is which space of amount limited a indicates price land of construction the by example for use, density high for economic theory, a highly demanded area and accordingly high land lan effective an of foundation the procure not does use, cons unconditional notably efficiency, economic an of terms In 578). dimension environmental the and economic the societal, the namely be can only city ‘sustainable’ a that notice to important u When 298). p. 2009, (Shin, topic world a become has city For the development of a city, the concept of efficiency 300) t than rather compactness for strives city the as soon

enough easily accessible easily use high-rise building entails certain societal effects as the co the as effects societal certain entails building high-rise green space green within the city center constitutes a challenge a constitutes center city the within 41

o be an expanding metropolis (Shin, 2009, p. 2009, (Shin, metropolis expanding an be o in terms of creating a ‘sustainable’ compact t as the economic effects. Interestingly, the In order to improve or secure a densely a secure or improve to order In high-rise buildings. This means that, high high that, means This buildings. high-rise achieved by balancing three dimensions, three balancing by achieved form (Gehl, 2013) In this context, it is it context, this In 2013) (Gehl, form ue O te otay acrig to according contrary, the On use. d as it is more cost effective to use the use to effective cost more is it as high building, which extends beyond extends which building, high traffic costs. Moreover, if built within increases the intensity of land usage land of intensity the increases cue ot sc a fr h public the for as such costs ucture quate amount of open space as well. 009, p. 300). On the contrary, it is it contrary, the On 300). p. 009, ctive at integrating various uses for for uses various integrating at ctive ring the night time. Therefore, the Therefore, time. night the ring eptions considering the eye level of of level eye the considering eptions lity of life and be a be and life of lity sing the word ‘sustainability’ it is it ‘sustainability’ word the sing tructing as well as a high-density a as well as tructing re. Another point in the context the in point Another re. . not only horizontally but most but horizontally only not . uld be economically used by the by used economically be uld prices require a high necessity (Wang and Shaw, 2018, p. 2018, Shaw, and (Wang - to -land-ratio, the typology the -land-ratio, t the expense of of expense the t mplex use mplex for for Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. construction as well as the accompanied costs noticeable bottleneck of resources among the constructio pr described already as buildings, high-rise of construction the a large the efficiency, of dimension environmental the Regarding the space open between the buildings (Shin, 2009, p. 300). pr and city a of quality the to contribute buildings high-rise box-s a than rather promoted be should tower a like shaped ve a or corridor view a provide to order In scale. human the (Wang and Shaw, 2018, p. 578). Moreover, the explosive the Moreover, 578). p. 2018, Shaw, and (Wang indoor environmental quality is necessary in order to guarant energy savings, water development, site sustainable including hig mean necessarily argued is It indispensable. become has design building sustainable not en does the high-density and since economic consideration, the societal, the taking by contr should environment consequently and can certainly buildings High-rise developing vertically (Armstrong, 2008, p. 11) landscaping and vegetation the to regard with context climatic sustainability, further aspects, such as the impact of th bu high-rise of conquest global the to due evolved has that the of two only represent 2014) al., et (Faizi efficiency ventilat natural using of capable is that system, double-skin turbines attached to the middle and lower parts of the building typ high-rise the of form specific the of usage make that rise development is their overuse of energy. Consequently, Another crucial and therefore highly criticized factor of th ecologically efficient building (Armstrong, 2008) b can building a of lifespan the maintenance, the and materials the on Depending possible. as long-lasting as kept be should the Furthermore, prioritized. be should materials of reusability of resources compared to a low-rise building regarding the co and commercial buildings: They require less space and can be us be can and space less require They buildings: commercial and urbanization, is a strong point for the construction of . have

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increased as well. As a result, the consumption high-density, high-rise buildings as residential e building to its’ surroundings, as well as its’ results emerging from the current research current the from emerging results n n industry. Accordingly, the emissions of e ecological sustainability regarding high- growth forms of alternative energy production ology have been designed lately. Wind Wind lately. designed been have ology haped typology. However, sustainable However,typology. haped ee sustainability in the high-rise sector rtical public space, high-rise buildings high-rise space, public rtical omote societal efficiency by ensuring by efficiency societal omote nstruction is higher which is why the ildings. In the context of ecological of context the In ildings. o a a aiiy o nrae energy increase to facility a as ion (Shin, 2009, p. 304) are argued to be considered when considered be to argued are existence of a high-rise building building high-rise a of existence efficiency, material selection and and selection material efficiency, quality of construction, the used the construction, of quality in housing demand as a result of of result a as demand housing in ed as an efficient tool to create a a create to tool efficient an as ed mount of resources required for for required resources of mount eviously has been leading to a a to leading been has eviously afce t contribute to affected e that a whole-building approach approach whole-building a that vironmental dimension into into dimension vironmental ibute to an efficient urban urban efficient an to ibute h-quality. Furthermore, a a Furthermore, h-quality. or the so -called to an an to Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. The incredible speed of China‘s urbanization, created by the by created urbanization, China‘s of speed incredible The eco smart urban infrastructure. Furthermore, modern technolog As a result, urbanization is often described as as described often is urbanization result, a As effec and characteristics their as well as phenomenon, this for urbanization of questions with dealing been has science capit global of implementation the as well as styles consumption are settlement of expansion strong a to connected is This Urbanization describes the increase of the proportion of achieve agglomerative advantages agglomerative achieve spatial a as itself presents urbanization terms, economic In delimited Room”) (“Container (Taubenböck, area 2015, p. itse area urban the or city the of understanding different world Accordin concepts. living urban new develop to makers decision 3.5.1 is projected dwellers 255 to add urban within time of this million period (United Nation account for more than 35% of the growth in the world’s countries The 2050. by 68% to increase to expected is the world’s population lives in urban areas and due to the c first time ever since, more than half of the global populatio 3.5 areas areas places a heavy burden on urban infrastructure, w areas rural from people u the of growth natural the factors: related closely two levers, such as the maintenance of the °Hukou System °Hukou the of maintenance the as such levers, can 386), p. 2011, Song, and (Zhang world the in migration economy (Zhang and Song, 2011). Over the last decade, almos decade, last the Over 2011). Song, and (Zhang economy administr central a from shift the of result a as constantly the ago, years 40 up opened country the Since process. -friendlier, more

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Council Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The cont this in used be to definition the Vienna, and Shanghai of hig betweenthe comparison supranational a allow to order In A 14 A Height Relative to Context Habitat,” n.d.). Buildings Tall Urban on |Council and Criteria defined by allocating the building type to at least one of the accor but exist not does building tall a constitutes what of measu for also but buildings tall defining for only not standards in a European city such as Vienna, this may this Vienna, as such city European a in definitely depends the on subjective perception the of individual notic can One then. back high-rise as understood certainly (Glauser 1933 in Janksch Hans and Theiss Siegfried architects un its of because also but design its of because only not middle of a district formed by baroque buildings and differentiated fr district first the in situated Vienna, in building high-rise oldest appearance as a high-rise building. There are buildings that buildings are There building. high-rise a as appearance c a be also can building a of slenderness the of degree The Proportion • -story building may not be considered a tall building in a high-rise a in building tall a considered be not may building -story

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uments further further . Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. intends to contribute to the discussion sin a to limited not are learned’ be to ‘Lessons globalization. in external by promoted also is flexibility This flexibility. certain as well as cultures that believed, is it Simultaneously, culture. dif complete the of aware be to important is it Furthermore, environment for itsenvironment for inhabitants. improv even or maintains simultaneously which city compact and livable megacity.” argued is planning…which settlement of type its with design urban in the dramatically increasing degree of urbanization worldwide, it may partic be to occurs This growth. and globalization of trend and how to deal with the typology that has evolved in both with considerations regarding recommendations generate to used drawn be will learned be to lessons information, that on Based n h frt lc. h ojcie f hs rcdr i, with is, value a outcome of and possible as information high as procedure this of objective The place. first the in Shang cities the between comparison meaningful a way, this In and secondly can be applied in a different context with restr shows due limited are Shanghai in collection data of possibilities the that for data of collection the for standard as functions study, practical approach to this topic especially regarding the met not why is This with. concerned is thesis and research this high-rise buildings in Vienna. It is an important study, delivering liv the of image comprehensive a generate to order in methods who Dlabaja and Reinprecht named researchers Austrian two by bu is partly thesis the result, a As possible. as efficient task of the comparison of two cities, research tools and q research the answering of goal ambitious the achieve to rise buildings contribute to a high-density and high-quality urb of this thesis is to generate a valuable outcome so that on on the different cities assumptions , that the methods used by Reinprecht and Dlabaja firstly prov firstly Dlabaja and Reinprecht by used methods the that , . The dimension of density will be discussed in terms of needs and des and needs of terms in discussed be will density of dimension The (Hassenpflug, 2010, p. 47) , especially by taking the opinion of inhabitants into considera about .

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not not be long before China takes on a leading role the case of Shanghai. Having in mind, in Having Shanghai. of case the uestions, also regarding the challenging the regarding also uestions, hodology hodology used in this existing Viennese of of the cities underlying the intensifying icted options regarding data collection. ularly important since important ularly only the information but finally the finally but information the only to form a high-density, vertical, yet highly yet vertical, high-density, a form to gle cultural framework. This thesis This framework. cultural gle ference of the cities regarding their regarding cities the of ference no doubt to generate a value of of value a generate to doubt no an an environment. In order to be able hai and Vienna should be secured be should Vienna and hai ing culture and quality of living in in living of quality and culture ing hi pann apoc underly approach planning their good good information about the topi and the key information will be will information key the and in future high-rise developments high-rise future in fluences based on an increasing an on based fluences to linguistic barriers, the study the barriers, linguistic to used a pronounced mix of of mix pronounced a used es ide qualitative information information qualitative ide the quality of the urban urban the of quality the tion. “…in the light of light the “…in ires depending ires The The scope c Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. I was also able to gather a lot of information about the h theof lack linguistic of skills became the main focus of my research which, at first, was not was I As perception. visual my provoked types housing old fragmented and small to next construction under more even the associated impact of this environment triggered my interes cit the of development height created artificially the Especially thein city but importantly, the more city itself. th of advantage take to me, to obvious was it months, 10 t given was I As Shanghai. in University Tongji the and Vienna the within 2017-2018 from stay my during Shanghai of fabric th of observations by formed was thesis this of topic The 5.2.3 density high-quality environment. hypotheses and Underlying urban are development high-rise the in consideration into take to what cities. By comparing the two cities, it is intended to draw con studies these of Object 5.2.2 are addressing specific living cultures and lifestyles among thos among lifestyles and cultures living specific addressing are out finding Simultaneously, me. to interesting very was Vienna ab be to Shanghai of development high-rise the to connected r the about Researching understanding. this deepen to helped researc with exchange the Furthermore, University. Tongji • • •

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differently within their constraints of planning planning of constraints their within differently to a high-density and high-quality urban urban high-quality and high-density a i is unique opportunity and study not only only not study and opportunity unique is gh mainly based on observations as a result e, appearing to me, extraordinary urban urban extraordinary me, to appearing e, hers and experts I met during my stay, my during met I experts and hers clusions the field of planning regarding -rise development within the classes at egulations and planning instruments planning and egulations t. Numerous high-rise buildings and Double Degree Program of the TU TU the of Program Degree Double used to the gigantic urban scale, it scale, urban gigantic the to used le to compare it more precisely more it compare to le he chance to study in Shanghai for for Shanghai in study to chance he y to such an enormous extent and and extent enormous an such to y in order to contribute to a high- a to contribute to order in to what extent high-rise buildings high-rise extent what to e totally different conditions of a a of conditions different totally e building structures of traditional traditional of structures building ires in order to create high- : pment. wing to to Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. the thesis and has been continuously comp and Analyzing study. the of stages different the during the represents bars, the of thickness the Moreover, ena didn’t or me enabled residence my of place the as important s to relation in put been has which bar a by represented within used methodology the illustrates above, shown image The with local residents. Similarly, I tried to gain an understanding an gain to tried I Similarly, residents. local with p urban the of characteristics local considering constantly a seta research of methods came that to will application, be illustrated the in rjc o a rdtoa L traditional a of project we as research field out carry to encouraging constantly lecture and professionals planning with exchange the that, soc city’s the understand and conclusions draw to able being Shan of culture the as well as history the about Learning in literature study to crucial was it result, a As first. at th Vienna, to contrary the understanding of the urban on environment was not given initially Shanghai of case the For interviewing well as my came only during st the as to application mapping spatial order In 5.2.4 the force this driving behind research. city growing rapidly a to compared city, growing slowly rather

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offered by China’s built urban environment cultural context of the signifier, especially signifier, the of context cultural tainly lead to a limitation on the one hand hand one the on limitation a to lead tainly eir eir perception and thus, being able to draw ofessors from Tongji University as well as ed at a very early stage, it enabled an an enabled it stage, early very a at ed structured as questionnaire containing containing questionnaire as structured nditions which was a crucial factor of of factor crucial a was which nditions o Hassenpflug, the process of urban urban of process the Hassenpflug, o ratory ratory space in Shanghai, particularly semiotics as well as the method of of method the as well as semiotics d open space. Both, the method of of method the Both, space. open d of the methodologies. Due to the to Due methodologies. the of ivle svrl aes including layers several involves t ll as the Chinese history. It forms forms It history. Chinese the as ll I was able to compile a significant urban environment as I perceived I as environment urban in Shanghai. With the help of a a of help the With Shanghai. in nriched on the one hand by a a by hand one the on nriched h built- the e qetos drsig the addressing questions pen as visual data in particular, particular, in data visual as ecs cntuto sites, construction fences, residents of various various of residents -rise traditional housing housing traditional -rise up environment of a a of environment urban urban Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. example, often represents conflict Voigt (Schönwandt a and planning in v the of comparison The emerge. often values contradicting deals firstly with the ontology that questions that ontology the with firstly deals The etc. economy ecology, architecture, as such disciplines philosophical background knowledge. The discipline-specific knowle discipline-specific of combination a is knowledge background The chosen chosen Methods are targeted operations that are believed to be a Methods objective. They interdependent are appr the based on chosen planning the to Similarly, achieved. be should what represent Targets Targets ‘targets’,of ‘methods’ the and knowledge’. ‘background depends problem a be to sensed is What them. maintain to done f positively perceived are conditions or improved be should which t two assume can One tasks. unsolved are problems Planning Problems 2005, p. 772) know background a and methods interdependent, of set a as well as goals of s a as Bunge, by elaborated ‘approach’, planning the on cultural backgrounds when carrying out a transnational co Voigt, 2005, p. 772) par own their from problems planning perceives process the p each Consequently, life. everyday of things the on view consciously iscompiled,Thiswork that eachknowingplanner 5.2.5 hrfr wih aus n mrl pann hs o undergo to has planning morals and values which therefore w thirdly and in result they what and occur processes mental furthe and knowledge and cognition of theories the with deals Background

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using After of Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Planning competencies were partly decentralized to specific ar This model became the start of a turning point towards a mor 2019) Stadt Wiener 2015; Novotny, 1978; (Mayer, axes development urban development plan was introduced in 1984 featuring proces a po working inapp became of model planning functionalistic the contradictions,…) flexibility higher economics, restructuring copne b a ies rne f ujc seii concepts thirdly, construction building a and secondly, plan. plan zoning a specific subject of range diverse a by superor accompanied a firstly include, instruments planning the However, of federal a basis is the Vienna Building Bode (Wiener Bauordnung). Since Vie Howeve accordingly. differs planning spatial of framework the Since there are 9 different spatial planning laws depending on 5.3.2 h ps. hs poess s el s oml n ifra pla found informal and formal as well as processes These past. the processes in Vienna are the result of institutional restru (Hamedinge trademark a ‘Vien as serves the often Therefore states) surrounding competition. city international an within Vi However, sprawl. urban counteract to therefore and A main result is the ‘Settlement-Policy Plan’ that intends to p cooperated with its’ surrounding states in 1978 when the were discussed in a symposium with a wider public. Regarding the in 2001). al., et (Redak procedures planning formal bypass to actors Nevertheless, it involved is argued, that the increasing fragmentatio the between cooperation the organizing by Procurement and Urban Renewal Fund (WBSF). Its’ duty is to ma type of public-private mix, various institutions have been f deve and investors private with authority local the between Vienna of north the in development high-rise of hotbed a now pr scale large regarding particularly other each with related citizens in planning procedures. Moreover, planning and the and planning Moreover, procedures. planning in citizens .

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ther topics addressed are the mobilization mobilization the are addressed topics ther ase, till 2025. The STEP recognizes the recognizes STEP The 2025. till ase, iennese structure of the °Gründerzeit the of structure iennese ncply f ina nd) designed n.d.) Vienna, of unicipalty construction measurements, Vienna Vienna measurements, construction resents an instrument that sets long- sets that instrument an resents reflect what the city is striving for for striving is city the what reflect e ‘Seestadt Aspern’ is considered as considered is Aspern’ ‘Seestadt e

e hy r dne n compact, and dense are they ce of Shanghai with its’ lake in the in lake its’ with Shanghai of have been considered to be in in be to considered been have pern’ in the north of Vienna. It Vienna. of north the in pern’ development with functionality with development pltn ein a wl a the as well as region, opolitan ting buildings. The built urban urban built The buildings. ting inner urban area (Municipal (Municipal area urban inner 8, 2014 8, p. 37) p. . A very well very A . as, 8% of of 8% as, rban rban .

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Plan regulates in detail the structural usability and the building the and usability structural the detail in regulates Plan to build. This means that the desired height level of the develo rise developers in Vienna generally do not know, beforehand, On Vienna. in instruments planning spatial formal the in included tha buildings meters, 26 to limited is Plan Construction and Building no where and Vienna in built be can buildings high-rise how and Based on those instruments, one should actually be able to building. plan, may be built on. Hence, it gives information about the cove areas, base the way what in or whether show must poor. int general the commissioned, was he Although buildings. tall with heights, tolerable and locations suitable determined he Vienna, t topography, the of analyzation detailed a on Based 1972. gene to Vienna of city the by commissioned was Potyka Hugo well as plans includes instrument formal The Construction The Plan Building thereforeand regulates the permissible use the on individual property. city and is drawn in the scale of 1:5.000 or 1:1000. It det The formal instrument includes plans as well textual descriptions The Zoning Plan construction.housing Hence, it is the the for subordina foundation tra for or space green as designated is area an whether developmen further to taking important an is It 2014). 18, Department Municipal Administration, is Vienna approach holistic the va The system. transport the and space open of planning 5.3.2.1 Vienna in crea to 1970s early the in already Potyka, Hugo commissioned a is development high-rise the Since discussions. further for over the following years. In order to counteract these a these counteract to order In years. following the over Without taking this concept into account, numerous high-r numerous account, into concept this taking Without

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ffic purposes, for commercial buildings or or buildings commercial for purposes, ffic ermines the use of the land exactly by plots red by the approved use from the zoning zoning the from use approved the by red rbitrary developments, another high-rise another developments, rbitrary riety of topics is aiming to demonstrate to aiming is topics of riety allowed density, height and type of the assume that it is out of question where he traffic and the urban structure of of structure urban the and traffic he to which height they will be allowed per per and that of the city is the conditions of a plot area plot a of conditions te a concept for high-rise buildings high-rise for concept a te esbe oi i Ven, h city the Vienna, in topic sensible rate the first high-rise concept in in concept high-rise first the rate . It refers to the whole area of the hence, aimed to set dominances set to aimed hence, t. Since the height range in the in range height the Since t. the contrary to Shanghai, high- Shanghai, to contrary the erest of the concept was rather rather was concept the of erest ise projects ise te plan. zoning tool though, since it specifies it since though, tool o te iy Ven City (Vienna city the of t t are taller than that, are not not are that, than taller are t were volution implemented . The plan plan The

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Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. the concepts, 21, Vienna Derpartment (Municipal buildings rise to out turned has which architecture, of dimension political n but Last model. a as York New as such cities American use are floors buildings lower the on space public high-rise additional and permeability of intermingling programmatic the to The questions sustainability. constructive and planning urban to building en its in topic the tackles it However, success. similar with development concept was commissioned. The second attempt of s connection was set. Based on those guidelines, high-rise bu high-rise guidelines, those on Based set. was connection a of existence the of requirement the Additionally, suitability. exclusio as declared not are that areas city all that, says and a definition of suitability zones that does not even leave z exclusion about information of patchwork a of more reminds Vien in development high-rise the regulate to attempt third The and links transport public from away far City’, Wienerberg no exclusion zone and exclusion and zone no the ‘ the foothills of the °Wienerberg, the ‘Fluvial Urban Landscape’ Simmer of east the in Composite’ ‘Urban the center, historic which different patterns of high-rise development should take high-quality public transport links but differs in one essent a visual and heritage world by imposed restrictions the Hence, on based is and 2025 STEP the additions concept, latest The noml n teeoe legally therefore and informal This case. specific a regarding drawn be to conclusions allow speculation, avoid to enough general are stipulations These are transition zones in which no high-rise development should t subjectively perceived to be ‘moderate’. Hence, which party which Hence, ‘moderate’. be to perceived subjectively ho height, towers’ Triiiple The development’. height ‘moderate projec this of example the with up Keeping area. this within for instance suggests to provide ‘porous base zones’ in thein toof Vienna, appeared benorth compatible with the fe that project ‘Triiiple’ The concept. the with anticipated °Transdanubian Expansion’. These areas occupy only partly only occupy areas These Expansion’. °Transdanubian Weebr, n h suh f ina bcm a rm high-ris prime a became Vienna, of south the in °Wienerberg, wherever wherever non a metro linea exists 21, Derpartment Vienna (Municipal bnig Sm ogig rjcs hwvr see t be to seemed however, projects, ongoing Some -binding. 76

order to link the fragmented urban structure 2014.) n zones, are potential zones of high-rise of zones potential are zones, n atures three high-rise housing buildings housing high-rise three atures ial ial point. It divides the city into areas in tirety, from the history of the high-rise the of history the from tirety, pattern Composite’of the that ‘Urban on on the banks of the Danube and finally a minor room for speculation, since it exactly specifies the permitted height permitted the specifies exactly but they are so meaningful that they that meaningful so are they but without a meaningful urban concept. urban meaningful a without ildings can be built wherever built be can ildings Bsd n h inrne f those of ignorance the on Based . be of particular importance for high- for importance particular of be t, the concept in this area indicates a a indicates area this in concept the t, concept is like the STEP 2025 only only 2025 STEP the like is concept hold. The ‘Consolidated City’ in the ing, the ‘Southern Terraces’ on the on Terraces’ ‘Southern the ing, xes remain, as does the demand for for demand the does as remain, xes ot least, the concept deals with the with deals concept the least, ot the previous guidelines from 2002. from guidelines previous the ake place (Luchsinger et al., 2014) na is dated by 2002. This attempt This 2002. by dated is na the urban area. In between there between In area. urban the ones, visual axes to be kept clear kept be to axes visual ones, higher-ranking public transport transport public higher-ranking wever, is far away from what is what from away far is wever, required, for which the authors authors the which for required, uch a concept was implemented lnig rcs ad social and process planning and the creation of of creation the and e location location e 2014 there ) ‘The ‘The .

is . Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. had been built and due to a reform of the building tax, the n the tax, building the of reform a to due and built been had no of expansion certain a on based 1918, until on, Later named ° t for apartment small the was nevertheless, apartment, of rvd etariay de vle o te eea public.".(Lu general the for value added extraordinary provide foll it qualities, ecological and social functional, landscape, natural At the beginning of the concept, it is stated that, intermediate heterogeneous of zones settlement structures’(Luc landmar as environment this in imagined be can points ‘high since project Triiiple the of reality the question, this to regard entire depend not determinatio should height height the that indicates "argued description" An environment. the for value added deter statement", mission "local a where question this address Phase implementation). and design concept, (idea, phases four the latest high-rise concept, the question is clarified by a with medium and large apartments for a wealthier Demolished houses in good locations containing small apartments wh speculative the stimulated period, this during shortage housing greatest the of time the was century 19th the Vienna, industry o change constant a undergone have conditions economic and occurred. field this in developments first ago, years hundred housin “social of history long very a to back looks Vienna 5.3.3 project itself value added The 9). p. 2019, al., et (Wiegand principles clear t of lacking be to argued is that city, the with contract retu in sector public the for services on takes investor reason generally can agree to. agree can generally remains development

for reflection. The destruction of urban quality cannot cannot quality urban of destruction The reflection. for Housing Bassenawohnung was adapted to those conditions and .

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6). rn by agreeing into an urban development urban an into agreeing by rn ransparency and generally does not follow not does generally and ransparency predetermined process that is divided into growth in city and population. The acute The population. and city in growth chsinger et al., 2014, p. 13) 13) p. 2014, al., et chsinger

n-profit building activity, new apartments new activity, building n-profit preceded the high-rise concept, especially concept, high-rise the preceded ows that Vienna only needs if they if skyscrapers needs only Vienna that ows he less wealthy among the population the among wealthy less he umber of small sized apartments was apartments sized small of umber should primarily be provided by the by provided be primarily should g construction”, since more than a a than more since construction”, g . The predominantly produced typ Ever since then, the general social general the then, since Ever hsinger ethsinger al., 2014). mines the variety of uses and the and uses of variety the mines two 'concept' should particularly particularly should 'concept' two f course. As a result, the housing housing the result, a As course. f ly on yield considerations. With With considerations. yield on ly osrcin f etl houses. rental of construction be justified by the fact that an an that fact the by justified be ks for a capillary network of of network capillary a for ks ere replaced by new buildings n according to the area area the to according n That refore gives refore

fact Plan. In In Plan. , one one , e , Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Marx more relieved. The most famous example for this kind of struct social reform ( block-like structure, and where meant to express the soc allow apartments, supe The created. were thousand superblocks so-called the community, a than more often with complexes 1999, pp. 7 pp. 1999, h single-family of construction the about concerns ideological of lack the generally lan or areas, construction developing decentralized of costs high the were settlements suburban h agmns n ao o peern inrct bok hous block inner-city preferring of favor in arguments The development of form that made usage vacant of lots the in city. multi-storey The apartments. bigger the inside built were and 0.5 BCR. Moreover, facilities such as the kitchen or the bu municipal new the in buildings of density the atriums, narrow in resulted which 0.85, of BCR a had buildings apartment style movements, settler wild so-called The important. more became strategies two 1918, after period post-war immediate the In 1988, p. 87). reduced whereas at the same time, the availability of larger municipal housing and at the same time to improve the living stan living the improve to time same the at and housing municipal st workers' movement. The aim the of the city denoteadministration was to places, many in cityscape Vienna's shape still Municipal period. pre-war the to compared change fundamental electio 1919 the of result a as Party Workers' Democratic construction.thethetakeover housing V With of municipal an allotments up set and basis legal any without often war, -Hof in Heiligenstadt-Hof in 1382 providing apartments. – 12) Marchart, 1984, p. 23) . Those vacant lots, however, had to be used creatively, used be to had however, lots, vacant Those . . Gradually, the structure of the superblock became more a 78

toilet were not meant to be shared anymore ial ial concept based on the considerations of apartments increased (Hösl and Pirhofer, sufficient settlement areas. In addition, addition, In areas. settlement sufficient ns, housing construction underwent a a underwent construction housing ns, ienna city administration by the Social bycity ienna administration d makeshift housing, and the start of of start the and housing, makeshift d for dealing with the housing shortage housing the with dealing for create sufficient living space through block prevailed as the predominant predominant the as prevailed block omes had also arisen (Eigner et al., et (Eigner arisen also had omes eghnd efcniec o the of self-confidence rengthened ure in Vienna, is probably the Karl- rblocks were built in a connected, a in built were rblocks in ad rnpr cnetos to connections transport and d dark apartments grouped around around grouped apartments dark that buildings from the 1920s, which 1920s, the from buildings g ilding projects was a maximum maximum a was projects ilding dards to took up vacant lots after the after lots vacant up took n a agl self-sufficient largely a ing urban expansion through through expansion urban . which is why building building why is which Whereas °Gründerzeit- nd nd Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. has been characterized by a progressive process of comme of process progressive a by characterized been has s ever that argues, Matznetter Similarly, 1970s. the during housing, was followed by a period that can be characterize the satisfy to served which reconstruction, of period The

e lot opeey tpe. h fcs f h constructio the of objects pomp monumental focus The stopped. completely almost be municipa for condition general the 1940s and 1930s the During hc rpeetd polm te osn dvlpr hd to had developers housing the problem, a represented which building did not diminish in this context. Nevertheless, quantity wa largest possible number of apartments, which is why the impo building limitsbuilding the for height building (Eigner et al., 1999, 13– pp. storeys, as they could be built without an elevator, the industrial the in production, series large standardized through been built using the assembly method. The precast thinking w controversial. Furthermore, prefabricated buildings increased, municipal buildings It in Vienna. Despite relatively good equipment, 1950s. high the of middle the in built was that building’ high-rise definitely performan housing criteria, quality Neglecting years. following were built in this context. A very famous example in this contex Figure Figure 42

Super block structure in Vienna Vienna in structure block Super . In the post-war period, the main priority was to quickly pro quickly to was priority main the period, post-war the In - The Karl The 79

- Marx Hof Marx nine-storey construction resulted from legal d by the increased demands on housing ince the 1960s residential construction residential 1960s the ince rcialization rcialization immediate quantitative demand for for demand quantitative immediate as as an expression of the rationalization

(copyright: Bwag/Commons) by 1984 over 20,000 apartments had rtance of the multi-storey apartment age. Building heights were mainly 4 mainly were heights Building age. ce rose steadily. High-rise buildings High-rise steadily. rose ce l housing deteriorated and had to had and deteriorated housing l 21). take take n activities was primarily on on primarily was activities n s rather important than quality, a oe f h frt high-rise first the of one was

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. Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. space exceeds 5000 m means that, in case of a rededication of land, it is now stipu of framework legal the to added was construction’, residential into came category new a speculation, and prices land rising the middle class can middle class and is, incidentally, a feature of social housing that obs some makes which class, middle the to belong today residents proba would c example, for 1960s, social the in erected the building municipal of analysis An limits. its reaching is compensation policy the that noticed, been has it however, general, In land. building into put on basic purchases in the settlement axes defined by u instruments such as the STEP Vienna. Regarding housing, th renewed rise in demand for housing, strategies were developed increasing the consideration, into Taking noticeable. became ar yard smaller towards tendency a structure, building the In trends, or itsproblems connected challenges targets. accompanied and de the regarding key are Plan Master Shanghai the to similarly concept that compared only to Shanghai may have long existe that the rent must not exceed 5 earners in particular could no longer afford the rising rent rising the afford longer no could particular in earners market estate real Viennese the on surge price enormous po housing the of requirement a remains classes disadvantaged th thus and shortage housing the of abolition The people. t of needs the meet to tool this use to difficult increasingly 19 spatcomprehensive of history long a to back looks Vienna rent shouldbehigher permitted this category building for (Municipalty of subsidies housing for principles planning existing the to addition Nevertheless, in order to take the higher construction co This housing. social for earmarked now are thirds two land, th century. This is not the case with the informal instrument informal the with case the not is This century. be offered 2 , two thirds of the space must be ‘affordable’. Affordable good and affordable housing through social housing, it is be € /m 2 . This means, that, wherever land is converted into residen 80

sts for high-rise buildings into account, in of using housing in order to create social create to order in housing using of rban rban planning as well transforming them at the end of the 80s meant that poorer poorer that meant 80s the of end the at lated, that if the created total residential ial planning starting already in the early the in already starting planning ial s (Eigner et al., 1999, p. 36) p. 1999, al., et (Eigner s e creation of living space for socially for space living of creation e eas and differentiated building forms forms building differentiated and eas nce. Nevertheless, these instruments, e focus of the activities has also been force in 2019. The category ‘subsid category The 2019. in force he growing number of less wealthy less of number growing he s, such as the STEP or the high-rise the or STEP the as such s, can be found across Europe. While and and embedded in informal planning also applies to high-rise buildings. high-rise to applies also shortage of building land and the and land building of shortage monstration of current and future and current of monstration spatial planning in Vienna. This Vienna. in planning spatial licy of the city of Vienna. Vienna. of city the of licy ervers speak of subsidizing the subsidizing of speak ervers , it is stipulated that a slightly a that stipulated is it , omposition of residents of a a of residents of omposition bly show that the majority of of majority the that show bly

Vienna, 2019). Vienna, in this case implies, . To To . coming fight An tial y

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. study is given below. For a precise explanation of the res strik most the of summary a completeness, of sake the For theof residents interest to be proved particular of the for study. the city of Vienna. The goal of the study, was to find ou find to was study, the of goal The Vienna. of city the a research housing for Department the of behalf on Dlabaja living residentialin Vienna towers” was carried out in 2014 by developers, investors and consequently urban planners, a attention increased received also has housing high-rise Since place within the progressive process of commercialization. T commercialization. of process progressive the within place the socially disadvantaged. It has become apparent, that the developed was space living of amount high a that fact, the it Nevertheless, development. high-rise the on influence little large-s of field the in experience of years many has Vienna noticeable area. the in inner-urban resource-intensiv a like appears that something in resulting t that public”. general but the for value added build “extraordinary to allowed be will they high how beforehand, area 5.3.4 ‘subsidy regarding Vienna residential construction’ might influence this p for the socially advantaged. However, the latest novel of challenges residential towers are relying.” and to what extent towers are addressing specific living cultures an pronounced in the context of urban growth, respond to the increasing de is discussions development public. the well high-rise as fragmentation increasing by any characterized regarding parties affected the for Building Construction Plan only includes artificial heights until 26 dev height building possible the recognizing instrument, planning th accepting to led finally developments high-rise Unfortunate represe it Therefore, projects. high-rise of process and The high-rise concept above all, provides information on pos -specific guidelines of the concept. As a result, developers result, a As concept. the of guidelines -specific

‘Quality of Life in Vienna’s Residential Towers’ of Residential Life in Vienna’s ‘Quality – the the proposed height level of the developer, that only can be estimated b estimated be can only that developer, the of level height (Reinprecht and Dlabaja, 2014, p. 8). T This underlines the low specification of the concept the of specification low the underlines This 81

d d lifestyles, and with which urban and socio-spatial nts a comprehensive planning instrument. planning comprehensive a nts earch, the design and the results, reference the legal framework of spatial planning in study with the title ‘Living and quality of t cale residential projects. That had only only had That projects. residential cale “to what extent high-rise residential housing, residential high-rise extent what “to high-rise residential construction took mand mand for high quality and affordable housing, e try- e sibilities regarding distribution, design and provided by the municipality for for municipality the by provided and ing results and the conclusion of the of conclusion the and results ing herefore nd international relations (MA50) of of (MA50) relations international nd Foundation for most accompanied accompanied most for Foundation Christoph Reinprecht Christoph Cornelia and is especially remarkable considering remarkable especially is vr h ps yas bt am both years, past the over in Vienna generally do not know, not do generally Vienna in e concept. However, it is the only only the is it However, concept. e and meters. It provides a framework nldn pann networks planning including he project has to provide an an provide to has project he a -error procedure, particularly particularly procedure, -error elopment, since the binding binding the since elopment, , it mainly offers living space living offers mainly it , S tudy rocess. he

subjective dimension ased on the on ased ong Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. A parties. various with interviews depth by accompanied survey was method main applied The district). city the in embedding spatial re external the in also or (neighborhood) structure social challenges and problems that arise in connection with living in t also but types, living high-rise of definition the allowed only Dlaba and Reinpreicht by research aforementioned the to made is and (Geiselbergstrasse) purposes. comparison for Tower) K6 Hochstädtplatz, Tower, Simmering Tower, Verde constr recent most the from towers residential as four defined including were which buildings high-rise residential five in implemented

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carried out by a quantitative a by out carried

twr rm h 1970s the from tower a interviews xmnto units, examination ae been have

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C HochhausSimmering B MonteVerdeTower

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E K6Tower D HochhausHochstädtplatz

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Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. strongly pronounced. a participate to wish the value, (economic) the maintaining in spher private individualized the toward orientation the support worse life individualized and privatized less with individuals or Families city. the th neighborhood, urban the to neither neighbors their to charac are styles living and life individualized residents, the Among center. (distant view, brightness, quiet ar apartments rental expensive more and condominiums expensive in differentiation social vertical a is there time, same the At cost reasons. These regard the apartment as an investme Key aspects are security, retreat and intimacy, and the a dwelling own the of importance high the underlines survey The Also, in this respect, living in high-rise building represents a Living in the residential tower corresponds corresponds tower residential the in Living theand sometimes considerable cost burden. most as value, noise), heat, prestige (wind, influences external by the caused impairments is building high-rise a in living of of housing satisfaction also expresses changing demands on 1970s, in which a larger proportion of people live who are exceptio An acquaintances. and friends to tower apartment large a that fact the in and stay to satisfa intention pronounced housing of level high generally a found survey The lig of lack views, here. pronounced of lack noise, by caused Impairments floors. some cases even primarily addressed to a population with more p more with population a to addressed primarily even cases some while low, rather is groups population weaker economically of building, primarily represents a residential form for social middle clas so and demographics their least, not and, architecture their Even if the residential towers examined, differ in terms of the 5.3.4.1 in the towers and intend less often to stay permanently. In permanently. stay to often less intend and towers the in

Results and ofConclusions Results the S ness ), the social status of the residents tends to decrease in to individualized housing needs and living experience. living and needs housing individualized 85 tudy

ccessibility both of green areas and nt and appreciate its representative effect. eir social relations are stretched out over out stretched are relations social eir already retired and where the lower level form of housing for the middle classes. aoiy ol as rcmed the recommend also would majority living. The most important advantage n is the housing construction of the of construction housing the is n ir ir location, their ownership all high-rise apartment buildings. If buildings. apartment high-rise all ction, which is also reflected in a a in reflected also is which ction, il tutr, iig n high-rise a in living structure, cial ctively in the neighborhood is not not is neighborhood the in ctively but also social stress (anonymity) stress social also but e, ownership increases the interest the increases ownership e, the residential towers are also, in in also, are towers residential the comparing to other life-domains. other to comparing particular high-priced segments high-priced particular urchasing power, not only only not power, urchasing teristic. They are not attached not are They teristic. ht or winds are particularly particularly are winds or ht e mostly on the upper floors floors upper the on mostly e important disadvantages are are disadvantages important ses. However, the proportion and living styles feel styles living and the lower structure, structure, the the city for for Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. the respondents reported about having cohesion. towers, Perimeter and intensity of neighborly relations and investigated the in is, tower residential the in Living ucin I gnrl cmo aes r ls used less are areas common general, In function. only appointment by available are which of (most areas common Designed towers. analyzed the of one only in observed was Greater participation in neighborhood activities, including the o relatively selective.are and rare ees o ol t mnfs ciei sc a ciiaiy r v or dimension criminality of behavioral uncertainty in regular as encounters wit such criteria manifest to only not refers perceive is uncertainty gastronomy) facilities, social (clinical, high In non-residents. or neighbors unknown with encounter an important source of insecurity and fear. This is evident and encounter for place a as experienced is elevator The lifestyle-oriented (e.g. walking Nordic groups). appreciated as prestige factor (e.g. spa areas). Collect en o cetn a eti "sad fet. h pbi spa public The effect". "island certain a creating of means urba of quality and structure the to refers topic key A building, but to residents’ also satisfaction. way, that contributes, and residents, and management house le detection of technical subjective defects etc. A fixed facility management and objective an on both respon increases, management institution (facility) property fixed a of implementation traditional housing estates. They are a source both of p continuously be serviced, renewed and and renewed serviced, be continuously ventilat heating, central system, alarm fire elevators, e.g. mainten necessary the only not concerns aspect security technic the with linked always is this and residents, for issue High-rise residential buildings are also technically vulnerable ent environment. no contact checked 86 and form an enormous cost factor compared to compared factor cost enormous an form and with other residents. Activities among neighbors

ive activities find an echo primarily if they are n environment of high-rise housing by the by housing high-rise of environment n than hysical and psychological vulnerability. The ance of the housing and its infrastructure, its and housing the of ance especially in the situations of unexpected ion systems. All of these features must features these of All systems. ion communication, although it represents, it although communication, expected. Some common areas are are areas common Some expected. al infrastructure of the buildings. The buildings. the of infrastructure al d even more. Thus, the security issue security the Thus, more. even d not only to preserve the value of the of value the preserve to only not h h unknown persons in an anonym activities are restricted: About half of may also create an interface between e urudn te oes s often is towers the surrounding ce naim u i priua t the to particular in but andalism rganization rganization of the tenants' interests ities. For this reason, safety is a key e, aey eg truh n early an through e.g. safety, vel, hrceie b a rgl social fragile a by characterized s otc o itrcin zones, interaction or contact as rs bidns ih ie use mixed with buildings -rise d nt et h intended the meet not do ) s o hs hleg. This challenge. this to ds ous

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eighborhoods eighborhoods as a whole. The design and ourth, with respect to the individualized the to respect with ourth, sidents as well as for for as well as sidents t meet the minimum legal requirements. ponsibilities to create open urban space t along four lines: First, the relation relation the First, lines: four along t ural tensions and to actively minimize actively to and tensions ural the towers, the relationship between ace. lifetime of a residential building and They They often tend to meet only a a only meet to tend often passers - by , often often , effect. Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. 5.3.5

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e SHMP sets out roughly the amount metropolis of Shanghai until 2035 as as 2035 until Shanghai of metropolis (Shanghai Urban Planning and Land character and specifies the direction the specifies and character oe te o-tttr pas that plans, non-statutory the more, ts not absorbed by the Master Plan Plan Master the by absorbed not ts of the much evaluated Shanghai Shanghai evaluated much the of t the strength of the plan lies in an e (distribution of the cities’ and and cities’ the of (distribution e ly, it identifies main axes such as as such axes main identifies it ly, ad n ntok –function network’ one and s ulsory contents include the city the include contents ulsory aei Pa’ r cniee to considered are Plan’ rategic 2 Tee ol ae especially are goals These m2. nsive planning instrument that instrument planning nsive g. Therefore, it is considered is it Therefore, g. (Wu, (Wu, 2015, p. 59) he argues, that the (Wu, (Wu, 2015, . Similarly, Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Pudong and Yangshan Deep Water Port into international hub international into Port Water Deep Yangshan and Pudong innovat and technology in role core a Center Science National tr free a of reform the deepen to firstly set is SHMP the and Xujiahui. Moreover, sixteen sub- sixteen Moreover, Xujiahui. and Lujiazu little include mainly will areas downtown core The Minhang. Hong namely, locations four including Avenue Century at ends th and river Huangpu the by represented is axe first The ar core one have to set is framework city new the city, dimensions. various include 2035 until goals development Further its space to boost interesting, since they represent a negative growth. As hs ae ny fw itrd ol o te HP 05 i o in 2035, SHMP the of goals filtered few a only are Those Resource Land Bureau, and Administration Planning 2017) 25 about to limited be will pollution) air particle a fine (hazardous the Furthermore, average. on resident each for provided public of km2 13 than more 2035 By SHMP. the to According goa The provided. be to set are spaces green and parks, sourc multiple from supply rental ensure to made be will effort city will also prioritize to establish a housing system that en ‘Humanism’, 99% of public services, will be covered within a 15 by covered be should 100.000 than more of population a with ob superordinate The 2035. by network) railway (Intercity 10 of amount total a reach should and expanded be to set is Plan or Urban Master Plan or District Plan Plan District or Plan Master Urban or Plan th on Based tier. Masterplan, the districts of greater independent cites like Shanghai hav an is De therefore the and of compulsory tier lower the for detail sufficient provide cannot This Plan supplements the Master Plan in large cities, since The District Urban Master Plan beshould not taken account. into a indicate obviously goals The level. detailed more a at planning ins The instrument. this of detail of level the and descriptions both, urban and rural and urban center .

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a result, the city authorities want to optimize ea (central parts of the city) and two axes. two and city) the of parts (central ea around the city. Considering innovation, innovation, Considering city. the around l is to rise the forest coverage up to 23%. to up coverage forest the rise to is l e derived their own, more Detailed Master e second axe starts at Yan’an Road and and Road Yan’an at starts axe second e courages both buying and renting. More jective is, that almost every New Town New every almost that is, jective ade zone, secondly to give Zhangjiang Zhangjiang give to secondly zone, ade . a a single Master Plan for the whole city 00 km rails (Metro) and 1000 km rails rails km 1000 and (Metro) rails km 00

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the the Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. 2015, p. 60). p. 2015, Municipality on Management Technique of City Planning a develo a Planning City of Technique Management on Municipality to According Vienna. in applied Plan’ Regulation ‘Building the to the concerning detailed more be also can it but Plan Master it in However, achieved. be should Plan Master the of goals three entran and street the from setback lines, transportation spe should b the includes Plan This lot. planned a within project construction Detailed the result, a As construction. immediate det Plans construction Detailedto be carried out. level), This means, that Detailed district Pla (at Plan Master the on Based Detailed Plan style plan’ is also referred to as the Detailed Development Con sin a as Vienna in used is instance for that Plan, Zoning a area area of building base larger than 30. fe apoa. h eaiain n apoa wl b dne i n if denied be will approval and examination The approval. after Another People’s Minicipal Government,(Shanghai 2003). became a major planning tool throughout China. However, th However, China. throughout tool planning major a became sta the recognize did Act Planning City 1990 However, Plan. two, in Austria separately used planning instruments: the Z This kind of planning instrument does not exist in this form in regarding land use type, building height and its density, plot ra the DDCP refers often to development areas throughout th p private bidding their calculate to since order in conditions situation planning preliminary new the suit to established was DDCP st the of decline the and market the of influence increasing The DDCP has evolved out from the change to a market-orien Detailed Development (DDCP) Control Plan the 1980s the in as comprehensive residential development (Wu, 2015, p. 60) micro-districts planned through development empha which concept, Soviet a from stems Plan District Residential -dimensional map in order to illustrate the scene of development of scene the illustrate to order in map -dimensional important category of a Detailed Plan is the Residential District Residential the is Plan Detailed a of category important Based on its content, the Detail the content, its on Based 000 m 2 must have a detailed planning drawn up and carried out ed Plan is somehow similar to what can be translated be can what to similar somehow is Plan 95

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Further reforms reforms Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. anymore anymore the actual development and construction speeds (Sha administra and governing city in improvements rapidly, so advancing emnlg i 20. eetees Sa t l age that argue, al. et Sha Nevertheless, 2008. in terminology notice more become also has that strategy another become attractive creating therefore and urbanization decentralized 16) in the of pressure the diminish to consequently and suburbs e to intended Municipality, Shanghai the by initiated project the therefore is considered to be inappropriate to be applied in ( cities European various to because refers strongly criticized appearance highly was 2005 until 2001 from undertaken appear its of because particular in attention international approa This Plan. Master Shanghai the of predecessor the farther towns satellite creating by approach polycentric gro of context the in city, the of structure the Similarly, 1998 stop the of welfare system housing 1978 the market economy 1949 the reform housing public ownership To sum up, three time have important nodes reform concerning housing that grants only the to right buildwithin certain time of a amount (Qing, 201 to the building or the building unit, not not unit, building the or building the to owned residential properties (Forrest and Izuhara, 2012, p. spa of increase an standards, Higher improvement. overall an As neighborhoods. residential old revalorizing in significant been investors tho Izuhara, and (Forrest development economic the accompany to which system, housing 02 p. 9 pp. 2002, half century because of tremendous changes in political eco h China urban in tenure housing that argued, been has it est otos uh s h mdrs wl us 4 7 storie 7 - (4 ups walk mid-rise (Arkaraprasertku the as such options density . Generally, Shanghai strongly operates within the context the within operates strongly Shanghai Generally, . usands of L of usands have been have – 10) ǐ

l and Williams, 2016, p. 139) that form the urban fabric unt Lòng u becam but allowed to develop housing for the domestic market in Shanghai. in market domestic the for housing develop to allowed in critical condition were demolished in order to create space f space create to order in demolished were condition critical in was reform when visible changes regarding the urban/residential landscape urban/residential the regarding changes visible when e a national development priority in the 1990s. Since 1993, f 1993, Since 1990s. the in priority development national a e

to the building land since it is owned by the government the by owned is it since land building the 98

away from the city center especially with especially center city the from away German Town, English Town etc.) and and etc.) Town English Town, German wth has been developed, by following a a following by developed, been has wth as experienced a zig-zag path in the past the in path zig-zag a experienced as ance, since the ‘1 city 9 towns’ project, towns’ 9 city ‘1 the since ance, 30). Nevertheless, the ownership refers nomy nomy and ideology (Huang and Clark, a a Chinese context (Den Hartog, 2010)

able since the shift of the planning planning the of shift the since able ner urban area (Sha et al., 2014b, p. 2014b, al., et (Sha area urban ner uubn ra apae t have to appeared areas suburban h pc o ubn eeomn is development urban of pace the ch unfortunately received a lot of of lot a received unfortunately ch et al., 2014b, pp. 17– of growth of e e cpt a wl a privately as well as capita per ce 2012, p. 28). During this period, period, this During 28). p. 2012, xplore models for urbanizing the urbanizing for models xplore a result, for some, this included this some, for result, a f t dsg. lhuh the Although design. its of ) n hg-ie apartments high-rise and s) tive systems cannot match cannot systems tive occurr (Zhuo, 2018) (Zhuo, il today. Consequently, 8; 2018) Zhuo, ed : 18). Therefore,

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, Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. especially in the district of Hongkou, which is an inner urba inner an is which Hongkou, of district the in especially eatet f h Saga Mncplt Amnsrto o Cultura of Administration Municipality (Arkarapr Shanghai the of Department anno has city the 2017-2035 Plan Master Urban the with is supported by satellite images, showing, the studied evolving 20 area from (6- rows in organized when densities great achieve role development in the inner urban area, especially for the usa diminishing almost subordinate, a only represent buildings mid-rise the amount of 150 that 150 of amount the f h mjr ntuet i te ne ubn ra n re t L 100 approximately order in area urban inner the in instruments major the of building high-rise Consequently, buildings. high-rise and mid- in living p greater a ever, time first the for and 2000s early the cope with the growth but to aim negative growth per se srkl n Wlim, 06 p. 139– pp. 2016, Williams, and asertkul ǐ

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8 storeys) storeys) 8 Bsd n bevtos uig 2017- during observations on Based . roportion of people in Shanghai have been have Shanghai in people of roportion regarding regarding the change of population. Since unced not only various goals in order order in goals various only not unced ge of housing, although being argued to (Tsu Ya (Tsu n district, it district, n cet get este. y 2015, By densities. great create o -Sing, 1981) . This statement This . 1981) -Sing, s are considered to be one one be to considered are s can be can 00 until of the late building building late the of Hrtg ctd by cited Heritage l recognized, that recognized, 2019. 2019. compared to compared

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90. The The 90. partly partly negative growth, since improvements of the marketisation, Shanghai Shanghai marketisation, the of sudden recurring western influence and and influence western recurring sudden duality and forced Shanghai to adjust to Shanghai forced and duality h but also promoted until now, when now, until promoted also but h ions regarding densities arose. In this In arose. densities regarding ions lue, consequently a higher priority in in priority higher a consequently lue, iented system. In order to keep to order In system. iented the high-rise development accelerated rt a certain message of modernity and quick emergence of numerous high- numerous of emergence quick more more the actual development speed. the DDCP, differs a lot a differs DDCP, the . It seems that as the L the as high-rise trend has gained an even an gained has trend high-rise of of creating extremely high densities is extremely young and influenced he pressure of the incredibly fast incredibly the of pressure he onsiderably easier for developers. for easier onsiderably e city was only able to catch up a a up catch to able only was city e the other hand by the western the by hand other the ooi. h atfca height artificial The ropolis. ntrol Plan. The superordinate The Plan. ntrol instrument for the respective e inner urban area that has has that area urban inner e ǐ

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to to old low-rise old from kept often pace

ion ion the the the the Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. holistic more a picture the of high-rise development. different these Investigating district. Hongkou the in located n h hg-ie cmon nmd Pjag igi ad h L the and Mingdi’ ‘Pujiang named °compound high-rise the in In total, 25 interviews each were conducted from May 2018 neighborhood. L landscape thatliving conquered over the form, has urban p the Shanghai representative somehow being Shanghai, in °compound residential 5.4.4 the high-rise could building even it is. than become already important more eie osrain n sail apn, interviews mapping, spatial and observation Besides environmentsout both being affected in by the late high- target one represents environment urban high-quality and building high-rise how and if about out finding Since replacement. urban traditional low-rise to adjacent buildings high-rise Modern while increases population the hand as population the affect targets negative-growth These ǐ

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Living which is representative for the traditional, completely divers completely traditional, the for representative is which Quality in Shanghai’s in Shanghai’s H Quality on the other hand other the on igh 102 -R ise

U well as the construction space. If space. construction the as well the construction space remains the same, the remains space construction the rban were ri of this thesis, field research was carried carried was research field thesis, this of to July 2018 with the help of a translator se development. neighborhoods is aiming to provide provide to aiming is neighborhoods odce i a oen high-rise modern a in conducted Environment ǐ

Lòng s contribute to a high-density a to contribute s of the typical modern urban urban modern typical the of e and and e forms is a result of partial partial of result a is forms named ‘Yifeng Li’ both both Li’ ‘Yifeng named ast years, well as a in as often directly adjacent directly on one on Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek.

eie ad mlmne. h proa eggmn, oee, was however, ‘ur class the of object research the became engagement, neighborhood personal The implemented. and decided contex T the in methods and held were the residents with Workshops program, preservation a of part was neighborhood, high-rise °compound, this affiliation was given as a result of alienatio the importantly most but place the of understanding inv personal a on based chosen been have sites research to danger the always is there translator, a with working and interviewed person is required. The interviewees moreover mus moreover interviewees trust The required. is of person interviewed level certain a interviews, quality high achieve To

answer Figure Figure the the 53

Pujiang Mingdi high Mingdi Pujiang questions and to get involved in the dialogue. It has to be k be to has It dialogue. the in involved get to and questions - rise residential ° compound

103 and Yifeng Li residential neighborhood residential Li Yifeng and

lose some of the information. As a result, a As information. the of some lose ban housing policy’ from April 2018 to 2018 April from policy’ housing ban my personal residence. The Yifeng Li leet loig o ol a better a only not allowing olvement n at some point. For the case of the of case the For point. some at n ewe te nevee ad the and interviewer the between nj Uiest ws sind to. assigned was University ongji t of low-cost beautification were beautification low-cost of t t be willing be t

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Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. semiotics, enabled semiotics, as well as sites the of information background collected the of perception subjective the of impression an as considered n moreover are results the conducted, interviews of number comprehen being near nowhere are they barriers, linguistic 5.4.4.1 the research. Theinterviews eye level beautification implementations together with site,the residents bu on research accompanying The neighborhood. this to July 2018, which I attended. This class aimed to understand th dwellings in total. Each dwelling measures approximately 110 m2 an m2 110 approximately measures dwelling Each total. in dwellings cou with often families, include they diverse, very are forms Living and and either used for the personal need or leased. to a population with more purchasing power. The apartment p °Compound similar Pujian since class, upper and middle social the for form residential any or Mingdi Pujiang in Living area. residential Hongk of south the in located is °compound Mingdi Pujiang The distinct towers that are are that towers distinct ples without children.

. The Mingdi

yia H Typical per se

the author to to author the were designed the study on based V out that was in carried spre igh ad ad -R free an increased grasp of the respective sites and therefore and sites respective the of grasp increased an ise y ec o te cutn 2 for ad prxmtl 900 approximately and floors 25 counting them of each ly, R esidential 104 The The

°compound °compound is organized as a including 8 °Compound s are often regarded as an investment the object of research. Nevertheless, research. of object the sive and detailed. Due to the small small the to Due detailed. and sive ilt the basis to generate a dialogue on e perspectives of various stakeholder grandparents, shared flats but also also but flats shared grandparents, t cetfcly ersnaie but representative scientifically ot observations the means of urban urban of means the observations h priiain n ie specific site on participation the g Mingdi is primarily addressed primarily is Mingdi g ou District in the middle of a a of middle the in District ou d is shared by 3- by shared is d by xml: Pujiang Example: rimarily represents a a represents rimarily ienna, but ienna, due to 4 enriched persons . Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek.

than they do, they than interviewed the of most However, benches placed all along the paths through the park and a gy a include facilities Shared management. time efficient more even as a as sh The obligations. social and work – dwellers the of priorities perceived is simultaneously and living of standard high rather a Th connections. social further or friends their to proximity their neighbors neither to the urban neighborhood. Only a characteristic very is life individualized the residents, the Among with. °compound as very comfortable which Fur emphasized. consistently was °compound high-rise the of This appeared to be the most important factor to many dwelle the great location, which was in particular defined by the p high extraordinarily an found survey this Vienna, in survey quieter. also is it therefore and emissions traffic less means qualit air healthier a by hand other the on and view better possibility to follow the priorities even better, since they since better, even priorities the follow to possibility even if they already lived in the upper floors. floors. upper the in lived already they if persons Figure Figure was 54

, with only one exception, desire to live even higher higher even live to desire exception, one only with , justified with the facilities, the °compound is equipped Pujiang Mingdi from outside from Mingdi Pujiang 105

playground for children. Moreover, a big roximity roximity to the respective working place. y, since a greater distance to the ground ground the to distance greater a since y, few people admired the location for the e °compound on the one hand reflects hand one the on °compound e They housing satisfaction. Dwellers admire admire Dwellers satisfaction. housing Simultaneously to the results of the of results the to Simultaneously

effectively enable the inhabitants to inhabitants the enable effectively rs. Besides that, the high cleanliness ared facilities offered are perceived are offered facilities ared justified it on the one hand by a a by hand one the on it justified hroe delr prev the perceive dwellers thermore, . They are not really attached to attached really not are They . as supporter of the respective the of supporter as m within a separate building, separate a within m

up up Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. The chip only allows to go to the floor of residence. Cons residence. of floor the to go to allows only chip The ground floor, one has to use the magnetic chip again, sinc tower and only opens the particular entrance of the tow also gives chip, magnetic the °compound, the Inside visitor. a usually porters The chips. magnetic compatible with residents denotes introversion °compo neighborhood attention. In fact, the °compound the is not only of features the and structure the by created Another highly appreciated quality is safety. Since residents echo ifan they reflect certain a lifestyle. activities collective However, Shanghai. in common very is which an meet to elderly the by used is gym the of front in space

but is only accessible by passing through guarded entrances th Figure Figure 55

Pujiang Mingdi shared space shared Mingdi Pujiang 106

er one is also resident of. Once entered the e otherwise the elevator cannot be used. equently, the residents’ access is limited is access residents’ the equently, live rather anonymously, safety is rather completely surrounded by walls which und than based on an interpersonal interpersonal an on based than und d dance or to do exercises do to or dance d

know who is a resident and who is who and resident a is who know access to the respective apartment apartment respective the to access are rather limited and only find find only and limited rather are

at only open to together, together, Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. The The are connectedare to better better conditions and environmental view. t limited probably is ‘prestige’ existing, If Vienna. to compared the context, this in option housing only the representing wor to close being housing of option only the as perceived °compo high-rise Shanghai, in classes upper and middle social the In rise desire housing be only can fulfilled commute underthe long a of condition to t considered is area inner-urban the in housing low-rise Since linked directly is desire This space. green open private some house low-rise a in live to want rather would they satisfied, the that facilities, shared the to as well as dwelling own their to Neverthele contributes and priorities to great efficiencies time regarding managemen ther and well as comfortable very as dweller the by perceived certain faults, which in this case, is not very uncommon, a a in vulnerable very are buildings residential High-rise anytime. °compound °compound °compound facility management is situated within one of the buildin ss, eiet d ms te oncin o h gon for Althou floor. ground the to connection the miss do residents .

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direct contact person is on site which is rsie atr s ahr subordinate, rather is factor prestige with a private garden, since they miss they since garden, private a with can also only be used by a dweller of of dweller a by used be only also can k and featuring a certain standard. By standard. certain a featuring and k

o be untidy and not livable, the low- the livable, not and untidy be o o the very upper floors since those since floors upper very the o to the desire for better air-quality. better for desire the to efore again supports the dwellers’ the supports again efore technical context. In the event of of event the In context. technical unds in the inner city are are city inner the in unds gs and basically retrievable t. h te ae very are they gh, work.

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Shíkùmén ees og n rpeet ol oe niy ihn L a within entity one only represents and long meters 5.4.4.2 green of amount small space the in densely built-up area. dissa the all, above reflects garden a with house a in city no social cohesion within this structure. The desire to live the fact that the social life of the residents is limited to th however, the delimited structure supports the so-called ‘islan dan dog, the walking (fitness, residents the of requirements L

The structure of the the of structure The Yifeng Li is located in the southeast of Hongkou District. It District. Hongkou of southeast the in located is Li Yifeng engagement with consequent the neighborhood. This has been causing a neighborhood, the in live workers migrant of lot or parents their from apartment the over took likely very neighborho this in living been have residents the of Some RMB. extremely varies is rent the and government the from publicly block the through shortcuts take to strangers by used ǐ

Lòng

block and its’s alleys are usually open to anyone to ente The type type of Typical T Typical L ǐ

Lòng °compound with all its facilities, is very valued because it fulfills it because valued very is facilities, its all with °compound raditional and represents an urban housing form for people with low Figure Figure R esidential 57

Pujiang Mingdi Mingdi Pujiang 108

N centralized eighborhood by . Residents, however, rent their dwellings their rent however, Residents, . tisfaction with the bad air quality and the and quality air bad the with tisfaction e borders of the °compound, there is also ǐ even grandparents. At the same time, a a time, same the At grandparents. even

on on a top floor or on the outskirts of the Lòng park d effect’ of the neighborhood. Despite lot of tensions among the community is a L a is cing groups,…). At the same time, same the At groups,…). cing r r and cross freely. Open gates often

, ranging from 500 RMB to 3000 to RMB 500 from ranging , block. It is classified as an old old an as classified is It block. ly do not have an equally high high equally an have not do ly od for their whole lifetime and and lifetime whole their for od ǐ

Lòng lane, approximately 30 approximately lane, Example: YifengExample: Li -income. The the lifestyle the

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. without children. w families young as well as tenant legal the from informally room c the on depend who people elderly single decades, for there Consequently, living forms include groups of migrant workers, order in activities collective in engage not would migrants since not k a like facilities individual as such requirements Basic standards. conditions living poor from suffers neighborhood the Generally, by themselvesinformally their own. on try reparations to and do p space, floor increase and low price the keep to order in are are urgently required. Moreover, the public as well as the whic overstrained are pipes the and properly work not does facades structures, buildings’ the at marks visible left have provided. Natural processes as weathering, that can be v be can that weathering, as processes Natural provided. Figure Figure 58

Lively neighborhood outside the the outside neighborhood Lively 109

private space is very , and pipes. Furthermore, the drainage drainage the Furthermore, pipes. and , L eople often build intermediate floors floors intermediate build often eople h is why renovation implementations renovation why is h ommunity, single persons who persons single ommunity, ǐ ery intense, particularly in Shanghai, Shanghai, in particularly intense, ery Lòng families that partly have been living

that are far away from modern modern from away far are that to improve the neighborhood. neighborhood. the improve to itchen, toilet or a bathroom are are bathroom a or toilet itchen, ith children or young couples young or children ith

narrow narrow and dark and

rent a rent

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. facilities. not desired among the population since they do not feature not do they since population the among desired not There neighborhood. this in non-existent practically is which Ov location. same the at house bigger a in life to residents conditions but would not want to move away move to want not would but conditions r the of Many lot. a neighbors their with socialize can and people are very satisfied living in this neighborhood mainly beca awar strong a and poor very are conditions the Although, people feel which very is very safe this in neighborhood appreciated. Act the on Based chatting. and dishes residents. washing painting, cooking, registered the among cohesion social great a corresponds with a very collective living experience and a st that barriers and facilities bad very bad which makes every-day-life very hard for them. Impa v are old, years 61 over people Especially satisfied. entirely °compound, high-rise the to contrary the on result, a As ne Evenly high, regarding priority is the location. Many people ighborhood since there are a lot of shops and facilities. Th facilities. and shops of lot a are there since ighborhood affect especially the elderly. However, living in this neighborhood neighborhood this in living However, elderly. the especially Figure Figure 59

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there eness of those conditions is given, many many given, is conditions those of eness esidents would like to live under better under live to like would esidents people in the Yifeng Li Alley are not not are Alley Li Yifeng the in people since they appreciate their social life. social their appreciate they since

rong rong sense for community resulting in live very close to work and admire the ery unhappy since the conditions are are conditions the since unhappy ery anything prioritiz anything erall, everybody misses everybody erall, lively contact and the close lifestyle, close the and contact lively irments are caused by too less space, fore, living in high-rise buildings is buildings high-rise in living fore, is is reflected in the desire of the of desire the in reflected is is vte aog egbr include, neighbors among ivities use they enjoy the community life ed

except for better better for except green space, space, green

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5.4.5

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shows the the shows whole block – cluster as a whole shows an impressively low BCR of 0,15 of BCR low impressively an shows whole a as cluster examined neighborhoods of the aforementioned research regar research aforementioned the of neighborhoods examined the the L ǐ

Lòng Lòng areas (B) . This calculation aims to provide a better comparison resulting from a much higher dwelling number and 112

total site. Most interestingly, the population CR, the FAR, the dwelling density and the was assumed. For the case of Yifeng Li, Yifeng of case the For assumed. was clusions regarding densities have been have densities regarding clusions ncy regarding the social and physical and social the regarding ncy gdi ional neighborhoods as well as high- as well as neighborhoods ional ecognizes the typical structure of a a of structure typical the ecognizes ousing policy. The data on dwelling on data The policy. ousing te demand for residential space in in space residential for demand te rth, therefore one has to assume a assumea to has one therefore rth, (A) ardly invalidated when taking the ersity. The site as area well as the r a cluae bsd n the on based calculated was er e case of Yifeng Li, the data was visits and personal experience. personal and visits , the data of the building year building the of data the , ntly standing out traditional traditional out standing ntly ic data from the interviews. the from data ic quals size. in o accouno whereas the the whereas l areas t.

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Lòng Lòng Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. 6.1 ‘High-rise: How?’ future high-rise (residential) developments, attempts are made Vienna Vienna looks back Vienna informal instruments, such as the STEP or the high-rise con high-rise the or STEP the as such instruments, informal traditio on based always almost are instruments, planning formal has existed for a long time long a for existed has is Vienna in stage early very a at appeared buildings, t Compared 1950s. the in back already building municipal equipped those challenges and accompanying targets. Growth for futur instance and current of demonstration the regarding key are f lnig il e drawn. be will planning of 6 stage. stage. development, similar to Shanghai, a polycentricity gained increasin of the traditional urban structure by those instruments. past think, that unambiguous guidelines, consequently expertise in Shanghai Shanghai contributes to the urban environment of a growing city, be answeredbe development as well as their differences the the discuss chapter following The proven

information of the preliminary preliminary the of information have proven the have proven opposite.

Discussion, L findings, ‘lessons learned’ for the future high-rise develop This has not been the case for high-rise buildings, althoug buildings, high-rise for case the been not has This P The The earned

lanning in numerous concepts and strategies starting in the 1970 the in starting strategies and concepts numerous in and . Secondly, the key information if information keythe Secondly, . A Vienna. As a result, the second research question will be pproach .

on a long history of comprehensive spatial planning which is wh

. Nevertheless, these instruments, similarly to the Shanghai Mas Shanghai the to similarly instruments, theseNevertheless,

Thus, Thus, to the the to es Vienna’s and Shanghai’s high-rise development by summarizing summarizing by development high-rise Shanghai’s and Vienna’s chapters by generating recommendations regarding considerations for for considerations regarding recommendations generating by idns n L and Findings H are igh . briefly outlined Firstly, the cities respective approach to the high-rise the to approach respective cities the Firstly, and -R 113 ise

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lot of thought was given to the topic which topic the to given was thought of lot D what extent the high-rise residential building building residential high-rise theextent what When When it comes to the accompanying is distilled according to the comparison of vlpet n the in evelopment is recognized similarly . Hence, t polm o ted, t connected its trends, or problems e cep this field exist but projects from the to contribute answering the question ment in growing cities for the field h one of the first ones, was a well a was ones, first the of one h t that compared compared that g importance at a relatively early n. This is not the case with the with case the not is This n. o Shanghai, the first high-rise first the Shanghai, o s. Based on that, one should one that, on Based s. he first research question will answered. Finally, based on to on essons the importance y, especially the ly to Shanghai Shanghai to ly F ield of of ield ter Plan ter urban urban Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. DDCP, differs a lot a differs DDCP, impor highly the context, this In buildings. high-rise of hotbed chang fast incredibly the of pressure the relieve to order adopted and influence western recurring sudden its’ follow to did not oppose the high-rise development accelerated by the ma population, questions regarding densities arose. In this cont with pace keep to order In system. market-oriented the suit to Shanghai forced and duality planner-decider the of stop the ga has trend high-rise The growth. increasing of process of message certain a transport to order in used been has the same, the high-rise could building even it than become alre important more affe increa nevertheless population the If space. construction targets negative These speed. development actual the administrative and governing city of improvements since growth, promoted it until planning now, when the latest Shanghai that Master Plan priorities top the of one been has growth majo a is which ownership, land of right the keep authorities preserv supp time same the at and densities high extremely creating of considerably easier for developers. This development denotes t the was was preset on a country Shanghai Urban Planning Ordinance in 1995, the city was only China in planning for foundation legal the Vienna, to Compared Shanghai sometimes does not even correspond to what has been prop f ranges result final the projects, the against are mostly a new project supporting the argument of bypassing forma of high-rise projects are already relatively fo bypass to likely very are projects scale large regarding t and planning of fragmentation increasing the Furthermore, is, the inner urban area, it appears like a try- that they basically take something away from the city. Rega that that they have to create target of the city to become a global metropolis. The artif ing the old building structures. Although property rights ha rights property Although structures. building old the ing from -level. The acute emergence of numerous high-rise buildings a a certain ‘added value’ to the city if being built, which in t the instruments, being used in Vienna and makes the planning the makes and Vienna in used being instruments, the and confu - error sing. The approach to high-rise buildings in Vienna 114 - concept concept that

rom a project stop to a compromise that compromise a to stop project a rom modernity and was also embedded in the in embedded also was and modernity ing inner urban area, which has become a a become has which area, urban inner ing rmal planning procedures that in the case the in that procedures planning rmal ses while the construction space remains remains space construction the while ses ined an even greater importance, due to due importance, greater even an ined l planning procedures. Since the citizens ext, Shanghai on the one hand definitely rding rding the high-rise development within osed within various planning concepts. icial height development consequently not only tried to deal with but also also but with deal to tried only not revealed its targets of a partly negative the growth of the economy and the and economy the of growth the r difference to Vienna. It seems that seems It Vienna. to difference r able to catch up a little later to he real estate business, particularly particularly business, estate real he orting economic growth, instead of of instead growth, economic orting t h pplto a wl a the as well as population the ct he extraordinarily great importance adjust its’ planning instruments to instruments planning its’ adjust a polycentric planning approach in in approach planning polycentric a is been followed when introducing rket and on the other hand started tant planning instrument of the of instrument planning tant systems cannot match anymore anymore match cannot systems is extremely young. With the With young. extremely is ve been expanded, Shanghai Shanghai expanded, been ve ady is. urn urn presupposes ccompanied process what what Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek.

city in Vienna are rather developed in new urban district center city the of center the within quantities great in resulting constructio high-rise the respect, this In application. their r planning the of design the from also essentially but cities, fr hand one the on assumed be can which meanings, different developmen high-rise the growth, of background the Against room room for interpretation for developers but enabling developers a rapid execution of high-rise projects t projects high-rise of execution rapid a developers enabling o al novd ate. inas atos prah o the however to approach cautious Vienna’s parties. involved all for that, to contrast 6.2 residents account. into opinions the the environ urban the to contribution a in result approaches xetos o cus, r hg-ie ulig itoue i t in introduced buildings high-rise are course, of Exceptions, living lot space a residents.of for a Vienna, in that out, turned has it Therefore, possible. ac to order in high-densities create to aiming Vienn be should buildings in population the Although, densities. population great the very low BCR (under 0,20) might help to lower the surf Looking at the densities created by high-rise residential building Vienna considerably minimize, not to say exclude, say to not minimize, considerably connected discussions long-standing The desired. not obviously osqety lo h cnrbto o te ihrs bidn t building high-rise the of contribution the also consequently . respective framework conditions of each city into account into city each of conditions framework respective •

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However H on the other hand rise igh the the , it is important to notice that whether the different the whether that notice to important is it , 115 (residential) development? efficient land use for a long period of time and and time of period long a for use land efficient -R

s ( ise . In comparison to that, high-rise projects high-rise that, to comparison In . BCR of 0,5 is needed to provide a lot of of lot a provide to needed is 0,5 of BCR ment can only be made by firstly taking firstly by made be only can ment n in Shanghai plays a superordinate role role superordinate a plays Shanghai in n R ace sealing, but similarly does not enable s based on the model of the polycentric esidential) egulations and instruments as well as as well as instruments and egulations also leave plenty of negotiating scope o cope with the speed of growth of speed the with cope o t in Vienna and Shanghai takes on on takes Shanghai and Vienna in t ihrs dvlpet therefore, development high-rise and most importantly importantly most and om the physical appearance of the of appearance physical the om s in Vienna, it can be noticed, that te ra evrnet Since environment. urban the o e inner- he i goig lwy high-rise slowly, growing is a commodate as many people as as people many as commodate -rise development in Shanghai Shanghai in development -rise to fallow construction land land construction fallow to planning regulations and and regulations planning urban area. These are are These area. urban B idn t the to uilding e one hand much hand one e by taking th taking . In In e Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. Although physically not separated not physically Although affects then radius the larger a high-rise se per building which is limited its in u it since whole a as environment urban the for contribution Vienna, of concept high-rise the to according as especially a providing by environment urban the to contribute actually hig a ope those on value more putting by However, environment. for room leaves clearly and meaning representative and individu th of environment urban direct the result, a As residents. typical, the at oriented being layout its in visible very some space the makes which buildings (residential) high-rise the that area, non-sealed ‘leftover’ high-rise the of advantages biggest the of one although mo disadvantages Shanghai, impairments caused by external environmental factors such a to Similarly satisfaction. living residents building residential high-rise examined the time, same the At density. can generally and class social upper and middle the (residentia to addressed high-rise the districts, urban new in built being If elsewhere there as isrelatively a time long to react to the growth. needed the and densities higher slowly, very growing is Vienna egbrod alw vr hg, lot iia dniy However density. similar almost high, very a allow neighborhoods it densities, regarding contribution the at looking However, the among population. earners public” public” Vienna are addressed to the social middle and upper class, L class, upper and middle social the to addressed are Vienna °c high-rise Whereas lifestyles. different completely featuring adjacent directly are °compounds high-rise where fabric urban into taken be replaced often is second the since neighborhoods, traditional to have °compounds high-rise only not Shanghai, o contribution the about statement a make to trying When Shanghai be not limited should also building to the use the of social class. upper middle and should be provided

by the respective high-rise project. Consequently, this t can be kept for other purposes other for kept be can from the public, the non-sealed surface generally is affiliated to affiliated is generally surface non-sealed the public, the 116

e high-rises often only meets a transitory transitory a meets only often high-rises e an an rsdnil bidn i te generous the is building (residential) n spaces, the high-rise building could building high-rise the spaces, n s wind, heat and noise. Nevertheless, can be used publicly and therefore and publicly used be can dditional high-quality urban space – space urban high-quality dditional by the first. This has led to a diverse a to led has This first. the by f high-rise (residential) buildings in in buildings (residential) high-rise f “extraordinary added value for the general the for value added “extraordinary is very interesting that both of the of both that interesting very is mons n hnhi smlr to similar Shanghai, in ompounds ǐ

, especially when it comes to the to comes it when especially , ) ulig i Ven uuly is usually Vienna in building, l) Lòng how semi-private. This becomes This semi-private. how to low-rise °compounds – °compounds low-rise to her contribution to the urban urban the to contribution her contribute to a high population population high a to contribute lzd ietl o te high-rise the of lifestyle alized infrastructure can be planned planned be can infrastructure con, u as low-rise also but account, te ult o te physical the of quality the , are addressed to the weak the to addressed are s contribute a lot to their to lot a contribute s stly are the result of of result the are stly se to the residents. ype of residential both

Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. space for a high amount of people on a relatively small amoun small relatively a on people of amount high a for space an developmen Shanghai cities’ the to contributes in definitely building residential high-density a for demand increasing the Regarding living satisfaction non-sealed ‘leftover’ the utilizing of terms in also but Shanghai in more exploited more is type building high-rise the of veryVienna, low social cohesion the of high-rise (residential) °compound However, w is byfurthermore therefore walls surrounded and exclud the within individualized very is life Vienna, to similar Nevertheless, green green since dwellers are very satisfied as well, although using the n o te an ifrne, eie te ult o te phy the L the of in community strong quality the is the neighborhoods, besides differences, main the of One quality thethe air green of and amount small bad space the in densely built-up want to exchange that to a different location. This desire of residents would want to live differently (mostly in a house is statement This residents. the of all for importance great cen the Interestingly, satisfied. relatively are neighborhoods because of the of because their building their definitely contributes a lot to the urban environment ,) los lt f neld ufc b smlaeul acco simultaneously providing a lot of living area per person (30m by surface unsealed of lot a allows 0,2) quality of living, at least for the ones who can afford. F anymore. Therefore, the typical high-rise (residential) °compo n do certainly etc.) space, living little surfaces, sealed only The poor living conditions of the L environment of the high-rise residential °compound is much more a •

n eupe wt a o o fclte ta ae ey uh appr much very are that facilities of lot a with equipped and for a high-density and high-quality urban environment? urban high-quality for ahigh-density and What does What ith the exception of the poor living environment in the L . need to share facilities for a partly long period of time, co time, of period long partly a for facilities share to need The contribution of the high-rise residential urban environme urban residential high-rise the of contribution The . Mainly Mainly the high the because of a - rise rise residential ǐ

Lòng public nuisance, not much attention is paid to that in Vien (bad facilities, narrow and dark alleys, no green space – 2 ). In this regard, the high-rise residential °compound 117 building

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Lòng especially since the non-sealed surface is very urthermore, the extremely low BCR (under surface , however, reflects the dissatisfaction with es contribute to the inc the to contribute , being a result of a strong interaction strong a of result a being , the public. assigned surrounding supported by the fact, that both both that fact, the by supported trality of the location appears appears location the of trality t et h bsc tnad f living of standard basic the meet ot with a private garden) but would not und definitely contributes to a higher contributing a lot to the dwellers’ the to lot a contributing t of space. However, space. of t mmodating a lot of people and and people of lot a mmodating , not only in terms of densities, of terms in only not , ia srcue f h diverse the of structure sical ts by providing a lot of living of lot a providing by ts dapted to a ‘modern’ lifestyle. ǐ

Lòng ihrs cmon that compound high-rise cae b te residents. the by eciated mpared to the, similar to similar the, to mpared Ven, h high-rise the Vienna, d .

, the residents of both nt in both, Shanghai Shanghai both, in nt ar re space space ea. asing demand asing

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Lessons Learned from Shanghai

public on and towers the inside space living of affordability the hand limitat The class. upper and middle social the to limited is Vienna, and 6.3 improvement. for room physical delimitation, is achieved in Vienna for access access for • • •

Lessons Lessons to living standards, this approach and the and associatedliving this values standards, approach require aware mee longer no structures living traditional Although function. most visibly in a vertical direction. The high-rise construction is cityscape the growth, rapid extraordinarily the with line In each othe each different, completely being neighborhoods by interspersed and reference to its traditional physical surrounding. As a resu low-rise dilapidated replacing usually inner-city, the in °compound prove to be crucial be to prove dwellers is a challenge. In this respect, Shanghai clearly plays High-rise buildings can be an efficient urban element especially city lseig f ih ulig o a ag site large a on buildings high of clustering be great of importance. liv prevailing the and lifestyle residents’ the to corresponding h ‘yia’ hnhiee xrodnr large-scale extraordinary Shanghainese ‘typical’ The osbe s o sae s n o is igs bnft o t of benefits biggest its of one is space of use possible po high a creating therefore people, many for space living generally represe that heat as such influences external by caused Vien and Shanghai in buildings high-rise of residents of impairments s o a possible. as low as to counteract this environmental-related and negative impact the direct high-rise residential urban environment. What is a is What environment. urban residential high-rise direct the of , thus a a thus ,

the publ the provoked provoked r. L earned limited amount of space. In this regard, the possibility of prov of possibility the regard, this In space. of amount limited In any case, this ‘conversion’, is an invasive intervention invasive an is ‘conversion’, this case, any In ic. In this regard, the contribution of high-rise residential b residential high-rise of contribution the regard, this In ic. by here, oee, s However, large sealed areas. High-rise buildings certainly can be used in

are firstly imultaneously generating high living satisfaction among among satisfaction living high generating imultaneously the type of of type the by a lowa quality of the public space, thus, low demand 118

area building development, more precisely, more development, building Scnl, h equipment the Secondly, . the other hand the exclusion of the of exclusion the hand other the , nts a major impairment in cities in impairment major a nts lt, the urban fabric is very diverse i tp o building of type his lsee hg-ie residential high-rise clustered pulation density with the least the with density pulation a pioneering role. Factors that on cities by keeping the BCR is subject to clear and formal ing culture also appeared to appeared also culture ing if constructed in changing accordingly fast, accordingly changing t today’s requirements and and requirements today’s t simultaneously adjacent to adjacent simultaneously chieved in Shanghai Shanghai in chieved ions concern on the one one the on concern ions na are predominantly predominantly are na structures, makes no no makes structures, ness in planning. ness planning. in in the city and its and city the in uildings leaves uildings iding a lot of of lot a iding and However, . a facilities compact order by a by the the

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to address this problem and also promoting a social mix. a promoting also to and address this problem space and enough space. Opening up those °compounds to t umbrella umbrella to provide an extraordinary added value for the gener the appearance in order to allow an embedding into the respe instruments. Specifications include the process of implementation The high-rise development receives a lot of attention partic intervention by such a typology. to this particular building form indicates ue wtot n ifra rglto add teeoe stron therefore added, regulation informal any without rules demanded and demanded and re implementation, quick a allows explicitness This rationality.

oen ihrs rsdnil cmon, otiuig o h res the to contributing °compound, residential high-rise modern spa the of facilities and design the to paid is attention Much refers to the to refers highly valued by its residents rise building and itsrise and building environment. re must value added this Furthermore, precisely. more defined be fo value added extraordinary “an of concept the that means field the Concerning °compounds. high-rise residential Shanghai’s equ and designed not and neglected being are they nuisance, residential construction’ is an example that might influence th influence might that example an is construction’ residential th novel latest The However, framework. planning legal the in anchored counteracted. be should trend this efficiency, poor the for exclusion of object an represents even and the socially advantaged. Therefore, this building typology does p mainly and commercialization of process progressive the within residentia high-rise the that shown have Vienna and Shanghai However, these However, neighborhoods suffer neighborhoods residen Adjacent non-residents. therefore public, the exclude turn represents a certain economic efficiency regarding lan regarding efficiency economic certain a represents turn public space surrounding the examined examples. Mainly due to t to due Mainly examples. examined the surrounding space public thus °compounds °compounds , requires necessity high a density high for use from other various circumstances, also also circumstances, various other but are However, t lack a direct added value for the public. In particular, this usually are self-contained and surrounded by a wall to wall a by surrounded and self-contained are usually 119 awareness

he examined high-rise residential examples in in spatial planning for the accompanied ularly ularly within informal planning I odr o civ societal achieve to order In . r the general public” needs to needs public” general the r ctive cityscape – all under the he public might be a solution d use since the area is highly is area the since use d thus in Vienna regarding ‘subsidy regarding Vienna in not promote social mixture al al public. from ipped like it is the case in in case the is it like ipped ce surrounding the typical the surrounding ce is process towards a more more a towards process is s eurs specifications requires is l construction took place took construction l ts of low-rise traditional traditional low-rise of ts and guidelines regarding . a timely manner and in in and manner timely a late directly to the high- the to directly late gl rovides living space for for space living rovides

of spatial planning, this planning, spatial of y

the absence of green green of absence the dns satisfaction idents’ eis n technical on relies The attention paid he public he are . Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. influences such as wind, heat and noise. Furthermore, the Furthermore, noise. and heat wind, as such influences and cor neighborhoods, respective the of facilities and equipment Shangha in buildings high-rise of dwellers of satisfaction great Besides an efficient land use regarding density site large to a be proved crucial.on area regar this In building. high-rise the of advantage more takes coverage ratio coverage contributes to coping with the increasing demand for housing for demand increasing the with coping to contributes environments in Shanghai, this By analyzing urban high-rise residential buildings in Vienna as w growth. Shanghai Shanghai and Vienna, which is why the cities are forced enables ration technical where Shanghai, contrasts totally Vienna in cau the result, a As growth. of speed the instance for adapte also is it since meanings different on takes development generally applicable panning scheme can be given. Hence, th instance for which environment, the history or the building- and planning tradition cities the of differences the on based regulatio planning their of constraints the within differently Based on the comparison of Shanghai and Vienna, it firstly ca challenges because growth. arising urban of growing growing cities densities, By focusing on high-rise (residential) buildings, this research 7

living culture, appeared to be of great importance. Impairmen importance. great of be to appeared culture, living Conclusion developers a rapid execution of high-rise projects in order t order in projects high-rise of execution rapid a developers

development its and users can be uncertain seen remains and the in future. this how However, living. high-rise to access socially-balanced but simultaneously maintain or even improve the quality of the ur the of quality the improve even or maintain simultaneously . , Consequently, this thesis is embedded in the issue of urbaniza the the population density and and density population research

has shown the usage of of usage the , the the 120 results of interviews conducted, clearly illustrate , that the high-rise residential building definitely

tious approach to the high-rise development high-rise the to approach tious to to the ‘leftover’ non-sealed surface, Shanghai Shanghai surface, non-sealed ‘leftover’ the find find solutions in order to counteract the d, the clustering of high-rise buildings high-rise of clustering the d, aimed to identify how to achieve great e respective approach to the high-rise research shows limitations regarding regarding limitations shows research n n be concluded that the cities operate ns and instruments. It is clear, that clear, is It instruments. and ns responding to the residents’ lifestyle residents’ the to responding lt ses o e roiie. This prioritized. be to seems ality nld te aua- n physical and natural- the include . d to prevailing general conditions, general prevailing to d , no recommendations regarding a ell as high- and low-rise residential i and Vienna. In this regard, the regard, this In Vienna. and i However, ts are mainly caused by external external by caused mainly are ts o cope with the rapidity of of rapidity the with cope o il fet h high-rise the affect will regarding regarding tion as it affects both, ban environment in in environment ban

the buildin g Die approbierte gedruckte Originalversion dieser Diplomarbeit ist an der TU Wien Bibliothek verfügbar. The approved original version of this thesis is available in print at TU Wien Bibliothek. the public space achieve is delimitation, physical a by Shanghai in achieved is What on the other hand the exclusion of the public to the direc taken advantage of. In order to cope with the challenges the with cope to order In of. advantage taken gene is scale, transnational a on cities growing in important These conclusions show that class social accessibility to the residential towers, since they are as heat by providing green space on the non-sealed ‘lefto non-sealed the on space green providing by heat as addre or exclusion of instead inclusion result,enhancing a As densitybeyond the population satisfaction a high creation a of and a of res of (high-rise)of is needed the neighborhoods to results expand this of the socio-sp of assessment comprehensive a on based research th However, proble respective the counteract to measures possible be pective high-rise development definitely can and therefore sho therefore and can definitely development high-rise pective . These limitations concern on one hand the affordability of living spa ese measures represent only findings of this particular stu particular this of findings only represent measures ese surroun ding theding high-rise building, thus, access low for demand the of public. the the contribution contribution of high-rise buildings, that have become increas 121

mainly addressed to the middle and upper t high-rise residential urban environment. ver’ area of a high-rise °compound, °compound, high-rise a of area ver’ ms growing cities are confronted with. confronted are cities growing ms arising as a result of urban growth urban of result a as arising atial problems, including a wider range range wider a including problems, atial rally given, but limited and not fully not and limited but given, rally ssing environmental conditions such conditions environmental ssing d in Vienna by a low quality of of quality low a by Vienna in d uld address problems that go go that problems address uld limited social group. sis. dy. Consequently, further Consequently, dy. ce inside the towers and ingly , t , can he

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