Primary school and residential building on Wagramer Straße, Vienna

摘要

Six-lane CUt "Wagramer Straße is the boulevard of the Donaustadt district", says Sne Veselinovic. As a description of the nine-kilometre-long street, this term could be seen as something of a euphemism. For Wagramer Straße is more a sequence of urban places that you pass through, which invites you more to drive rather than to stroll sedately along it. It starts after the Reichsbrücke on the left bank of the Danube and, making few curves, leads from there to the edge of the city. The exhilaration you feel when on the bridge above the waters of the old Danube with its bathing areas and boat hire facilities is only short-lived and soon after the six-lane highway cuts through an urban landscape whose physiognomy is characterised by the pace of urban development. Facades in which the efforts to provide protection against the emissions caused by street traffic are very evident, characterise the residential buildings here, most of them erected in the 21st century. Between them there are supermarkets, car sales showrooms, and DIY markets. Despite the trees lining the road and, at places, green strips in the middle the quality as a place to spend time is low.