A Need For Change. Vienna, a Performative Beauty

Cities’ actual and future livability – including healthiness and life quality – depends on their preparedness to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, crucial issues of the Anthropocene. Contemporary open spaces need design actions for new aesthetics capable of conveying values through architecture by combining spatial quality, environmental performance, and sociality. The city of Vienna is one of the European best practices with a long pioneering tradition in promoting holistic planning and project design actions capable of guiding design choices with a multidisciplinary approach. Esterházy-Park is representative of this city’s capability; it is a public park with a long history and a complex inclusive pro-gramme of uses, located in Mariahilf –in the sixth district.