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Planning Tools for Climate-Neutral and Livable Neighborhoods
Oskar Mair am Tinkhof
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2025.05.003
SIR—Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning and Housing, Salzburg 5020, Austria
Today city planners are confronted with two global trends: on one hand, living space is getting less due to urbanization; on the other hand, demands on living space are constantly rising as for example through stricter climate and energy political objectives based on the Paris Agreement. Therefore, it will be necessary to take into account—near urban planning and social aspects—also the climate compatibility as one central aspect in the construction of buildings, settlements, districts or neighborhoods. To identify and to push successful concepts, Austria has developed a planning tool that allows planning, assessing and ensuring high quality standards of neighborhoods. As the tool has been highly successful, additional planning tools are being developed for specific topics such as “PED—Positive Energy Districts”, “NEB—New European Bauhaus” and “CND—Climate Neutral Districts”. Central quantitative and qualitative criteria—which have been elaborated in the recent years—will be presented in this paper.
Urbanization, Paris Agreement, neighborhoods, planning tools, criteria.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 19 (2025) 237-241
doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2025.05.003
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