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Results of the ISEK4 project presented at REALCORP in Mannheim

The results of the "ISEK4" project were presented at the international planning conference REALCORP, which took place for the 29th time last week. The presentation by our colleagues Petra Hirschler and Martin Aufhauser was met with great interest.

Petra Hirschler and Martin Aufhauser present the "ISEK4" project in a presentation room. Petra Hirschler points with her hands in the direction of the projector.

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Photo from the main hall of the conference. In the foreground you can see partially occupied wooden chairs, in the background a large slide with the orange REALCORP logo and the motto "Keep on planning for the real world" as well as various sponsor logos.

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Photo of the ISEK4 cover on a railway platform at night. In the background you can see an advert announcing a train heading towards Stuttgart.

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The innovative approach from Austria (and Italy) aroused great attention, particularly among planning colleagues from Germany, where the instrument of the ISEK (Integrated Urban Development Concept) has been established for quite some time as part of the urban development funding (Städtebauförderung).

ISEK4 was a transnational pilot project for the development of a new planning instrument. It dealt with two spatial realities that - despite their obvious necessity - are rarely considered in conjunction within the existing planning toolkit. The ISEK4 concept supplements the classic ISEK approach by including the regional symbiosis as a "second level of action" in addition to the four city centres (Bruneck, Hermagor-Pressegger See, Lienz and Spittal an der Drau). The pilot project was based on an interdisciplinary approach and developed together with steering groups from the cities: Within eight months, knowledge and needs were collected, recorded and localised in various workshop formats.

The results are available at https://isek4.project.tuwien.ac.at/, opens an external URL in a new window.