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Vienna

According to the 1955 amendment to the District Composition Act, Vienna is composed of 23 municipal districts:
1. Innere Stadt 2. Leopoldstadt 3. Landstrae 4. Wieden 5. Margareten 6. Mariahilf 7. Neubau 8. Josefstadt 9. Alsergrund 10. Favoriten 11. Simmering 12. Meidling 13. Hietzing 14. Penzing 15. Rudolfsheim-Fnfhaus 16. Ottakring 17. Hernals 18. Whring 19. Dbling 20. Brigittenau 21. Floridsdorf 22. Donaustadt 23. Liesing

Urban area in 2008


Geographical position Latitude: 48 07' 06'' to 48 19' 23'' north Longitude: 16 10' 59'' to 16 34' 43'' east St. Stephen's Cathedral: 48 12' 32'' north, 16 22' 27'' east Total area Length of city boundaries Maximum extension Altitude above sea level 41,489 ha 136 km North-south West-east Lowest point 22.8 km 29.4 km 151 m (Lobau)

Highest point
St. Stephen's Square

543 m (Hermannskogel)
171 m

LIVING IN VIENNA

LIVING IN VIENNA

The weather in June 2008 broke all records: it featured the highest monthly precipitation of the entire year, there were thunderstorms on as many as ten days, and on 22 June the local temperature reached its annual high of 32.4 C. On the evening of 25 June, a heavy thunderstorm with hail and wind gusting over 100 km/h even led to a temporarily closure of the official UEFA EURO 2008 TM fan zone on the Ring in Vienna.

LIVING IN VIENNA
ROAD TRAFFIC

LIVING IN VIENNA

LIVING IN VIENNA

The Vienna underground network consists of five underground lines with a total route length of 68.9 kilometres.

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

The Vienna labour market saw a highly favourable development in 2008. The total number of employment contracts reached a record high of approximately 876,000. The unemployment rate (based on the number of registered unemployed) decreased by 8.2% compared to the previous year (Austria: 4.5%). At 7.8%, unemployment has dropped below 8% for the first time since 2001.

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA

PEOPLE IN VIENNA
In the 2009 survey on the quality of living in 215 major cities worldwide, Vienna ranks first for the first time, followed by Zurich and Geneva.

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

Inhabited by one fifth of Austrias population, Vienna accounts for more than one fourth of the countrys economic performance

VIENNAS ECONOMY

The enormous significance of the service sector for Vienna is illustrated by its share of gross value added (GVA), which amounts to more than 80%. The figure has decreased slightly compared to the previous year, which is mainly due to a recent review of the national accounts.

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY
The number of enterprises and people working in the nonpublic sector shows the dominant position of the service industry. The real-estate sector and business-related services alone account for more than 40% of all business organisations and a quarter of all jobs.

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

Net hourly pay divided by a representative basket of commodities including rent. The data are from 2006 and were updated in early 2008.

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

Vienna and Bratislava are only 60 kilometres apart closer together than any other two EU capitals. The Twin City Liner service launched in 2006 allows passengers to travel by boat from one city centre to the other in no more than 75 minutes.

VIENNAS ECONOMY

VIENNAS ECONOMY

POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION


The Vienna City Council (which also doubles as the Vienna Provincial Parliament) is composed of 100 members elected to the City Council for a five-year term of office. The distribution of seats accounts for the political composition of the City Senate, which currently comprises eight Executive City Councillors (SP), five City Councillors without Portfolio (2 VP, 2 GRNE and 1 FP) as well as the Mayor, the two ViceMayors and the Chief Executive Director.

POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

In 2007 contractual employees for the first time outnumbered public officials working for the Vienna City Administration.

Gender Mainstreaming in Vienna


Vienna is a model city for gender mainstreaming. As the only federal province in Austria, Vienna established a project office for gender mainstreaming in the Chief Executive Office of the City Administration in 2005. Positioning gender mainstreaming at the senior management level has proven beneficial. The success of gender mainstreaming is already visible in many areas: in labour market policies and the design and planning of public spaces, parks, playgrounds and day care centres. So far, there has been a particular emphasis on the gender aspect in the areas of urban planning, housing, public health, youth, and parks and gardens. 19 departments of the City Administration have already initiated gender mainstreaming activities. The funds that are financed by the City of Vienna also apply the principles of gender mainstreaming in their work. Viennas know-how in the implementation of gender mainstreaming is internationally sought after. Experts of the City of Vienna have shared their knowledge and experience in many cities in Europe and the United States.

Gender Mainstreaming in Vienna


In order to make the term gender mainstreaming more tangible for the employees of the City Administration (and, in consequence, for all citizens of Vienna), the city has initiated a campaign called "Vienna sees it differently". Posters and print ads are designed to raise awareness for gender mainstreaming. The campaign centres on commonly known pictographs and signs with reversed gender.

Gender Mainstreaming in Vienna


The new pictographs will not be limited to posters: the City of Vienna intends to be a pioneer in adapting signs and pictographs to our everyday reality, insofar as their design is within the sphere of competence of the City Administration. For example, changing tables in public restrooms will now also be indicated by signs showing a man changing a baby.

Gender Mainstreaming in Vienna


Vienna Public Transport will also participate in the gender mainstreaming campaign: the traditional round pictographs that ask passengers to give their seats to elderly and disabled people and people with small children have been redesigned, the old and new will now be used side by side. At first glance the new signs on the underground and the tram look the same, but the second glance reveals the difference: where the pictograph used to show a mother with a toddler on her lap, there is now also the image of a father with a child on his lap.

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