A bit of background: about "Walkability" & WildUrb
Vienna is is a very walkable city and with my website I want to highlight the contribution that walking makes to peoples mental health, a city's walkability and therefore it's community. After discovering many areas on foot in Sydney, Australia during maternity leave - I also discovered my love for using walking as a primary mode of transport and decided to to build this website www.walkability.com.au to spread the word of how walkable Sydney is. Not long after my family and I moved back to Austria - how exciting to be able to do discover "walkability" now in beautiful Vienna, the capital of the country I am from...
Very often the simple act of walking is overlooked as a serious mode of transport as cities focus on vehicle based transport. The WildUrb Walking Guides, a series of books centred around the main focus of discovering your environment while walking, positions walking as the primary mode of transport in the city. I was lucky enough that the WildUrb ownders Doris and Jine engaged me for this tour as a guide - so I got to know another amazing little district in Vienna while preparing for the "WildUrb Guerrilla City Walk" through the 15th district of Vienna.
A quick note on the tour...
The 15th district enjoys a vibrant social and cultural scene with a lot of city development and urban renewal happening. On our tour we could discover how the (wild) urbans create their districts - with artworks, markets, shops, events, guerilla gardening and many other activities...
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is an up-and-coming district with particularly busy, creative and imaginative people. A lot of them live and work in this area and care for a sustainable urban development that brings people together - it is an own special village within the city.
A colourful variety of urban furniture and seating opportunities in the public space serve as meeting places where people do hang out actively and care for communication in the neighbourhood.
A few impressions of the tour...