STEP 2025 was developed under the authority of the City Council.Moreover, the City of Vienna will continue “to ensure the The Urban Development Plan 2025 (STEP 2025) shows a clear visionsustainable preservation of existing protection zones and for the direction of development and lays the foundation for the key superordinate green corridors. Besides safeguarding and areas of action in the city. “One of its objectives is to significantly monitoring green spaces, the city will strengthen the green increase the share of non-motorized individual traffic in the city, grid to positively influence the urban climate through additional and develop specific plans targeting housing, green and opengreening” (Ibid., p. 118). spaces, economy, or infrastructure.” The Urban Development Plan corresponds to smart city goals, defined with “regional cooperation In addition to the quality of its green spaces such as the Vienna areas” (Regionale Kooperationsräume). The principles of theWoods, which are central Europe’s largest contiguous area Mission Statement for Green Spaces of the Urban Developmentof forest and a UNESCO-designated “biosphere reserve,” the Plan of 2005 remain unchanged and are now part of the smart cityfact that Vienna boasts 120 square meters of green space per program’s development. Therefore, “the types of agricultural usecapita, one of the highest per capita levels of green space in the so emblematic and characteristic of Vienna’s landscape will beworld, has enhanced the reputation of the city’s environmental preserved, particularly the identity-creating vineyards and meadows policy (including the Climate Protection Program 1999-2020). with scattered fruit trees.”( https://www.urbaninnovation.at/tools/ uploads/UrbanDevelopmentPlan2025.pdf). Figure 7.5 – Green space solutions (SCWFS 2019–2050, 2019) Vienna Woods City centre Agriculture Office parks, Urban River Suburban industry residential Danube settlements Urban areas Parks residential and gardens areas Figure 7.5 describes how the City of Vienna, through the Urbanfuture challenge is to do more awareness raising and education Heat Island monitoring plan, rapdyuderstood that greenwork at the district level, backed by support from the political spaces represent a vital opportunity to fight against climateand medical authorities. change in highly urbanized areas. Therefore, to counteract summer overheating and high energy consumption for cooling,3.2 Objectives for Vienna’s green spaces Vienna financially supports the greening of facades, roofs, and inner courtyards. The smart city program in Vienna has defined many objectives regarding green spaces, and measures have been taken to The current budget (five hundred thousand euros) enabledmonitor and improve those places through technological a funding increase from 2,200 euros to five thousand eurosdevices and collaboration with citizens. Four essential goals per project (CVW, 2020). The department responsible for theare being pursued in this area: scheme participates in an interdisciplinary applied project, •The city wants green spaces to continue to occupy over 50 Green and Resilient City, which develops tools for control, percent of the city until at least 2050. The council also aims optimization, and evaluation of green and climate-sensitive city to ensure interconnections among and between parks and (district) planning, including GREENpass (https://metropole.at/ neighborhoods in order to facilitate access to and safeguard all-you-need-to-know-about-austrias-green-pass/). Vienna’s green spaces; 206 Quélin and Smadja | HEC PARIS | SMART CITIES | The sustainable program of six leading cities | 2021 erutarepmeT