The area extending between Danube Canal, Danube, New and Old Danube embodies the most dynamic por- tion of Vienna’s stretch of the river. Always considered highly attractive for construction projects, the situation by the water’s edge is strongly enhanced by the inter- sections with the identity-creating urbanistic axis of Wagramer Strasse and the U1 Underground line. Thus the riverside zones are both provided with, and bordered by, signifi cant spatial fi gures and types with high recogni- tion value. The most prominent among those signs are Donau City and the Wagramer Strasse zone. In the past, these sections were developed in differentiated.
