From teacher to successful Smart City Chief

“Many possibilities for happiness”: Mayor of Waidhofen a / d Ybbs wins URBAN MENUS Smart City Call in February 2021 

The second winning project of the URBAN MENUS Smart City Calls, advertised by the Austrian-Argentinian architect & urban planner Laura P. Spinadel, is certain. The mayor of Waidhofen a / d Ybbs, Werner Krammer, received an award in the Smart City Chief category. Because his actions in Waidhofen are exemplary in several ways: For the international discussion on how we can make our cities smarter and the dream of making everyone happier come true. 

What the URBAN MENUS team has found here: A city that has been living the approaches that are important to URBAN MENUS and that are digitally supported with the 3D tool URBAN MENUS for years: It will worked together on visions, the people and the effect for people are in the foreground. This is exactly what is analyzed with URBAN MENUs according to the impact topics happiness, security, innovation, economy, circularity - and in Waidhofen integratively considered: urbanmenus.com/de/category/award-winners-de/

Existing achievements, traditions and importance are treated with respect, i.e. everything is not simply made new and different regardless of the history. But it will be responsible and together with the population Visions for the future developed, implemented and, if necessary, readjusted: “Waidhofen has to and had to keep changing reinvent“, Said Werner Krammer in an interview. For him, urban development is a ongoing processon which one can rely must let inwhich, above all, can also be actively shaped.