ABSTRACT
The Vienna green belt is one of the oldest urban green belts in the world and one hundred and fifty years ago Vienna's citizens realised that an effective protection of urban greenspace was needed. One of the highlights in the history of the Vienna green belt in former times called the Viennese forest and meadow belt was the rescue of the Wienerwald by Josef Schffel. Further zones within the Vienna Green Belt are: Protected Park Zone and Agricultural Lands. At present, a trans-boundary green belt concept between Vienna and Lower Austria is under consideration: the Vienna green belt should be integrated into the landscape of Lower Austria. Today's objectives for the Vienna green belt go beyond the city borders of Vienna and are oriented on landscape, and no longer political, borders. The development of the Vienna green belt has not finished.
