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Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy

(E267) (Project Management)

Institute of Urban Design and Planning

(E260)

Institute of Power Systems and Energy

Economics (E373)

Institute of Law (E265)

Vienna University of Technology Karlsgasse 11, A-1040 Wien

Tel. +43/1/58801-26721 Fax +43/1/58801-26799

[email protected] http://www.ifip.tuwien.ac.at

Vienna University of Technology Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Wien

Tel. +43/1/58801-26001 Fax +43/1/58801-26099

[email protected] http://www.stb.tuwien.ac.at

Vienna University of Technology Gusshausstr. 27-29/373-2, A-1040

Wien Tel. +43/1/58801-35718 Fax +43/1/58801-35799

[email protected] http://info.tuwien.ac.at/iew/

Vienna University of Technology Argentinierstraße 8, A-1040 Wien Tel +43/1/58801-26502 or 26513

Fax +43/1/ 505 7183 [email protected]

http://lawsite.tuwien.ac.at

First contact: [email protected]

University Extension Center (E015) Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstr. 28, A-1040 Wien

Tel +43/1/58801-41552, Fax +43/1/58801-41599; [email protected]

Supported by

Urban Technology Service Center Odessa Troitskaya str 20, UA-65011 Odessa

Tel +380/482/344154-54, Fax +380/482/344151; [email protected]

Institute for Building Materials, Building Physics and Fire Protection (E206)

Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Wien Tel. +43/1/58801-20601, Fax +43/1/58801-20699;

[email protected] http://www.bph.tuwien.ac.at

Institute for Building Construction and Industrial Building (E215)

Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Wien Tel +43/1/58801-21501, Fax +43/1/58801-21599

[email protected] http://www.hochbau.tuwien.ac.at

Center of Legal Competence (CLC) Wohllebengasse 6, A-1040 Wien

Tel. +43-1-5037335, Fax +43/1/5037336; [email protected] http://www.justiz.clc.gv.at

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - WIIW

Oppolzergasse 6, A-1010 Wien Tel. +43-1-5336610-37, Fax +43/1/5336610-37; [email protected]

http://www.wiiw.at

Initiated by “Urban Technology Network (UTN)” http://www.utn.at

Austro-Ukrainian Student Project

"Urban Renewal, Urban Design and Infrastructure Development

in Odessa"

Together with Teaching Staff of Vienna University of Technology, Metschnikov State University Odessa, Odessa State Academy of Construction

and Architecture, and Odessa State Polytechnic University, supported by Experts in Firms and Administrative Offices

in Odessa (Ukraine), Galati (Rumania) and Austria

WORK PLAN (4th Sept. 2001, supplemented 1st Oct. 2001)

mailto:[email protected]


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Contents:

I. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPANTS OF THE STUDENT PROJECT “URBAN RENEWAL, URBAN DESIGN AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT” 3

A. Organigram 4

B. Serial Overview by Groups of Participants 5

II. TIMETABLE OF THE STAY IN ODESSA 7

III. GENERAL DATES AND COURSES TO BE ENROLLED AT THE VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 8

IV. WORK PROGRAMME 9

A. Survey of the spatial-functional basic structure of the City of Odessa and its most important problems, risks, chances and development options 9

B. Urban design concepts for selected high priority locations (e. g. Harbour areas, Recreational areas, Hotel surroundings and suchlike in Odessa on a similar scale level) 12

C. Urban Renewal: Technical, socio-economic and legal approaches to the restoration of apartment blocks with business premises (of which the first is still to be specified) 14

D. Private investment in small-scale combined heat and power stations for the self-sufficient production of process heating/cooling and electric current, supplying electric current surplus to the communal grid during peak load periods 18

E. Options to develop a Tourist Information Center in Odessa (method still to be worked out) 22

Chapters A to D sub-divided into:

• Objectives • Results to be expected • Target Groups • Activities • Partners • Risks affecting work progress • Timetable

F. SUPPLEMENT: General Risks affecting work progress 23



I. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPANTS OF THE STUDENT PROJECT “URBAN RENEWAL, URBAN DESIGN AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT”

A. ORGANIGRAM (NEXT PAGE)


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A. Organigram: Student Project „Urban Renewal, Urban Design and Infrastructure Development in Odessa“ - Organizational Structure and Participants

AdvisersEugenia Tokarenko,

Director of Foreign Relations and Invest. Policy Department Odessa City Council

Executive Committee

Gerhard Kuschnig - MD 31 Vienna

Walther Stöckl MD EU-Förderungen Vienna

Andreas Zemann,Univ. Extension Center Vienna

Gerhard Berger - MD-BD Vienna

Christian DonnerIndependent Housing Policy Researcher

Lecturer of IFIP

Johann F. Mayer - e&s Vienna

Christian WeltzienRegional Consulting Ziviltechniker GmbH

Herbert Tretter, Mech. Engineering withEcon. Supplement; backstopping in Vienna

Julia Zelvenskaya, law (Law Acad.) Tanya Kim, economic geography (State Univ.) Kate Yefimenko, architecture (State Acad.) Vladyslav Nikolayuk, civil engineering (St. Acad.) Evgenij Krizhanovskij, energy supply and energy management (Polytech. Univ.) Dmitry Lozinskiy, energy supply and energy management (Polytech. Univ.) Dmitriy Alexandrovich, civil engineering (State Acad.)

Students from Odessa

Vera Hofbauer, Urban and Reg. Planning Lisa Karlhuber-Vöckl, Urban and Reg. Planning Harald Lampl, Urban and Reg. Planning Melanie Lutz, Urban and Regional Planning Michaela Naderer, Urban and Reg. Planning Sandra Schwarz, Urban and Regional Planning Stephanie Schwer, Urban and Reg. Planning Marc Geiss, Mechanical Eng. With Econ. Suppl. Johannes Homa, Mech. Eng. With Econ. Suppl. Bernhard Aumayr, Architecture Michael Iwanowitsch, Architecture Gernot Schönauer, Architecture Andreas Gaisberger, Structural Engineering Oliver Vollgruber, Structural Engineering Inge Horcher, Russ. Interpr., Slavonic Studies

Teachers

UrbanTechnology

Service CenterOdessa (UTSCO)

UE 267.107: Project 3

Objectives ofthe lectures

see Work Programme

Sponsors

On behalf of the City of Odessa:PM Odessa Consulting

Jürgen Mewis(Director)

Center of LegalCompetence(CLC) Vienna

UrbanTechnology

Network (UTN)

http://www.utn.at

City of Vienna:MD

EU-FörderungenMD 31

(Water Department)

Source: IFIP, TU Wien

EX 265.004:Regional Planningand Environmental

PolicyEX 260.027:

Study Tour Urban Design

UE 260.000: DesignProgramme

EX 267.950:Infrastructure- andFinancial Planning

Appointed by E267:Wilfried Schönbäck(Head of E267)Wolfgang BlaasStephan FaßbenderGerhard StögerJürgen MewisSupport in Vienna:Peter Biermayr (E357)Josef Pöschl (WIIW)

Visiting FellowsNinel Jasmine Sadjadi (CLC)

Gerlinde Oppolzer (E267)

Period of Work: Sept.-Dec. 2001

Lectures

Regional DevelopmentAgency Galati

Other Cities and Regions from Central,

Adriatic Danubian, East and South-Eastern

European Space (CADSES)

City of OdessaSupport in Vienna:Clemens Hecht (E206)Birgit Ecker (E215)

EU-Programme “TACIS CBC Small Project

Facility Programme”

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On behalf of the City of Vienna: Regional ConsultingZiviltechniker GmbH

Kurt Puchinger(Managing Director)

Managing the creation of UTSCO

Students from Vienna

Project Design and Management:Institute of Public Finance andInfrastructure Policy (E267)

Andreas Hofer (E260)

Vienna University ofTechnology

Institute of Urban Design andPlanning (E260)

Institute of Power Systems andEnergy Economics (E357)

Institute of Law (E265)

Arthur Kanonier (E265)

University Extension Center (E015)

Institute for Build. Materials, Build.Physics and Fire Protection (E206)

Institute for Building Constructionand Industrial Building (E215)

Odessa State Academy ofConstruction and

Architecture

The Vienna Institute for Internat. Econ.

Studies - WIIW

Invited: Inst. of Constr. Manag.and Constr. Economics (E234)

UTN - RumaniaCity of Galati

Vadim A. Lissenko, Marina Stakyan,Sergey Protopopov (Architecture)Evgeny Fomichev, Valentin I. Kotenko(Heat and Gas Supply)Aleksander Vishnyakov (Law)Vladislav Omelchenko (Economic Geography andurban zoning)

Metschnikov StateUniversity Odessa

Galati County Council

Igor Studennikov(Director)

Sergey PjatovIrina Peregudenko

ILF Beratende Ingenieure ZT GmbH

Jenbacher AG (angefragt)

Know-how-Transfer-Center beim

ÖsterreichischenStädtebund

Porr AG

Odessa State PolytechnicUniversity

Odessa Law Academy

Odessa State EconomicUniversity (invited)


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B. SERIAL OVERVIEW BY GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS Academic Partners in Odessa: Vadim Andreyevich Lissenko, Prof. of Architecture and Restoration, Dr. techn., Head of the Department for Architectonic Construction, Restoration and Reconstruction, Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture, President of the South Ukrainian Branche of IKOMOS, and

Marina Stakyan (Architect), and others Subject: Renewal of Tenement-Blocks - Constructural and Legal Aspects S. Protopopov, Dr. (Architecture), Senior University Lecturer, Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture Subject: Building and Urban Design M. Polunin, Prof., Head of Department for Heating and Gas Supplies, Odessa State Academy of Structural Engineering and Architecture, and V. Kotenko, invited expert Subject: Energy Provision and Energy Saving A. Vishnyakov, Dr. jur., Senior University Lecturer, Odessa State Academy of Law, Lawyer Subject: National, Local, and European Legislation V. Omelchenko, post-graduate student, Department for Economic Geography, Metschnikov State University Odessa Subject: Urban Zoning, Landscape Architecture Partner from Galati (Rumania): Dan Lilion Gogoncea, President of the Galati county coucil Isabela Ghiorghi, Regional Department officer at the Galati County Council Cristian Liviu Ilie, Deputy Manager of the Galati Regional Development Agency & SME’s Promotion foundation. Teachers from Vienna University of Technology: P. Biermayr (Institute of Energy Economics E357, Appointed Lecturer of E267) W. Blaas (University Professor, Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy E267) S. Faßbender (Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy E267, Appointed Lecturer) A. Hofer (Assistant Professor, Institute of Urban Design and Planning, E260) A. Kanonier (Assistant Professor, Institute of Law E265) J. Mewis (Consulting Odessa, Appointed Lecturer of E267) J. Pöschl (The Vienna Institute for International Economics – WIIW, Appointed Lecturer of E267) W. Schönbäck (University Professor, Head of the Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy E267) G. Stöger (former member of Regional Consulting Ziviltechniker GmbH; Appointed Lecturer of E267) Visiting Research Fellows within the Project: Ninel J. Sadjadi (Center of Legal Competence; Project Manager Research) G. Oppolzer (Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy E267, Research Employee) Additional Support for Students in Vienna: C. Hecht (Institute for Building Materials, Building Physics and Fire Protection E206, additional support for student) B. Ecker (Institute for Building Construction and Industrial Building E215, additional support for student) Students from Ukraine: Students from Austria and respective courses of studies: to be announced soon Vera Hofbauer (Urban and Regional Planning)

Lisa Karlhuber-Vöckl (Urban and Regional Planning) Melanie Lutz (Urban and Regional Planning) Harald Lampl (Urban and Regional Planning) Michaela Naderer (Urban and Regional Planning) Sandra Schwarz (Urban and Regional Planning) Stephanie Schwer (Urban and Regional Planning) Bernhard Aumayr (Architecture)



Michael Iwanowitsch (Architecture) Gernot Schönauer (Architecture) Andreas Gaisberger (Structural Engineering) Oliver Vollgruber (Structural Engineering) Marc Geiss (Mechanical Engineering - with Economic Supplement) Johannes Homa (Mechanical Engineering - with Economic Supplement) Herbert Tretter (Mechanical Engineering - with Economic Supplement) Inge Horcher (Russian Interpreter, Slavonic Studies)

Advisers: E. Tokarenko, Director of the Foreign Relations & Investment Policy Department, Odessa City Council, Executive Committe G. Berger, Magistrat Wien, MD-BD, Geschäftsstelle Infrastruktur und Stadterneuerung C. Donner, Bureau of Housing Policy, Vienna G. Kuschnig, Magistrat Wien, MA 31 Wasserwerke J. F. Mayer, e&s, Vienna, W. Stöckl, Amt der Wiener Landesregierung, MD EU-Förderungen C. Weltzien, Regional Consulting Ziviltechniker GmbH A. Zemann, Vienna University of Technology, University Extension Center E015


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II. TIMETABLE OF THE STAY IN ODESSA Austro-Ukrainian student project „Urban Renewal, Urban Design and Infrastructure Development in Odessa“ – Timetable of the stay in Odessa within the period from 6th to 26th September 2001 as shown in the table below - Students:

Surname Given name Course of study/ Institute sending out

Primary respons.

Sec. resp

05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

1 Aumayr Bernhard Architecture Chapt. B A p p p p p p p p p p p 2 Iwanowitsch Michael Architecture Chapt. B A p p p p p p p p p p p 3 Schönauer Gernot Architecture Chapt. B A p p p p p p p p p p p 4 Hofbauer Vera Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. B A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 5 Karlhuber-Vöckl Lisa Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. D ..A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 6 Lampl Harald Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 7 Lutz Melanie Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. D A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 8 Naderer Michaela Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. C A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 9 Schwarz Sandra Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. C A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p

10 Schwer Stephanie Urban and Regional Planning Chapt. E A p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 11 Gaisberger Andreas Structural Engineering Chapt. C p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 12 Vollgruber Oliver Structural Engineering Chapt. C p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 13 Geiss Marc Mech. Engineer. – Econ. Suppl. Chapt. D p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 14 Homa Johannes Mech. Engineer. – Econ. Suppl. Chapt. D p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 15 Horcher Inge Russ. Interpr., Slavonic. Studies All chap. p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 16 Tretter Herbert Mech. Engineer. – Econ. Suppl. Chapt. D B a c k s t o p p i n g i n V i e n n a

- Teachers from the Vienna University of Technology: 1 Hofer Andreas I. of Urban Design & Planning Chapt. B A p p p p p p p 2 Faßbender Stephan I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy Chapt. D C p p p p p p p 3 Kanonier Arthur Institute of Law Chapt. A C p p p p p p p 4 Blaas Wolfgang I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy Chapt. C p p p p p p p p p p 5 Mewis Jürgen I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy A, C, D p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 6 Schönbäck Wilfried I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy A, C, D p p p p p p p p p 7 Stöger Gerald I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy Chapt. C A p p p p p p p 8 Biermayr Peter I. of Power Syst. and Energy Econ. Chapt. D S t a y i n g i n V i e n n a 9 Pöschl Josef The Vienna I. f. Int. Econ. - WIIW Transf. Th. S t a y i n g i n V i e n n a

- Visiting fellows in this project: 10 Sadjadi Ninel Jasmine Center of Legal Competence (CLC) Chapt. C p p p p p p p 11 Oppolzer Gerlinde I. of Publ. Fin. & Infrastr.policy Chapt. A p p p p p p p

p....present in Odessa. The day before the first and after the last “p“ in each line is a travel day.


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III. GENERAL DATES AND COURSES TO BE ENROLLED AT THE VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

General dates: 6th – 26th Sept. 2001: Common work of the Austrian and Ukrainian participants in Odessa

(students of Architecture from Vienna until 16. 09. 2001) 28th Nov. – 10th Dec. 2001: “Joint Austro-Ukrainian Project Workshop 1” (in Vienna, together with

teachers from Odessa) 10th – 17th Jan. 2002: “Joint Austro-Ukrainian Project Workshop 2” (preparation of the final report

in Vienna; together with students from Odessa, if the necessary financial means can be acquired)

16th Jan. 2002, 17.00-19.00 h: Presentation of the final report at the Vienna University of Technology

Courses to be enrolled at the Vienna University of Technology: UE 267.107 „Project 3“ (10 SSt) EX 267.950 „Infrastructure- and Financial Planning“ (2 SSt.)) [for students of Structural Engineering this

two certificates are credited for a “Great Design Programme” (8 SSt)] EX 265.004 „Regional Planning and Environmental Policy“ (2 SSt)

Alternatively for students of Architecture: UE 260.000 „Design Program“(7 SSt), EX 260.027 „Study Tour Urban Design“ (2 SSt.).



IV. WORK PROGRAMME

A. SURVEY OF THE SPATIAL-FUNCTIONAL BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE CITY OF ODESSA AND ITS MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS, RISKS, CHANCES AND DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS

1. The Objective

Selected parts of a general inventory are to be made of the situation in the City of Odessa with regard to the city structure, city development, production by sectors and the living conditions of the population there. This viewing of the city as a whole, from the town planning point of view, by the teaching staff and students from Vienna together with the teaching staff and students from Odessa, should provide orientation for the work in greater detail. Because otherwise the major interrelations are hardly recognisable and, in the process of analysing and planning on the level of city districts, high priority locations, building blocks or locations further below, important spatial interactions may be easily overlooked.

2. The Results to be Expected

2.1 A more profound understanding and an increased basic knowledge of all the students and teachers from Vienna of a) the City of Odessa's history (political, economic, culture in general, with reference to town planning and architecture), b) the natural spatial foundations of the city, c) the main utilisation zones of the city area, as well as its most important economic, ecological and social characteristics, d) the most essential functional interrelations between the city districts taking into consideration the traffic within the city and between the city and the region around it. Starting from the most important problems and risks, the basic chances and development options as well as examples of attractive guidelines for city development should be understood in this survey. An insight into, and an appreciation of, the practical town planning activities in Odessa should also be gained. It is to be expected that there will be important orientation impulses for the students and teachers.

2.2 Sketches of plans to divide the city into planning and utilisation zones employing the criteria of modern town planning tools, as a contribution to a collection of ideas for a future town development plan for Odessa.

3. Target Groups

3.1 Interested members of the city administration of Odessa 3.2 Staff of the Urban Technology Service Center Odessa (UTSCO) 3.3 Interested members of the Urban Technology Network (TACIS Project of the European Union)

in the different European countries, especially in Galati, the town nearby in Rumania 3.4 Those specialists in Odessa concerned with urban planning at Universities as well as in the

public administration and building construction firms 3.5 Representatives of the public utilities in Odessa


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3.6 Interested students of the Universities of Vienna and Odessa, having knowledge or strong interest in urban planning

4. Activities

4.0 Preparation in Vienna and Odessa 4.1 Introductory tour and walks around the city of Odessa (on 6th Sept. 2001) 4.2 Participation exclusively for the teachers and students from Vienna in talks and discussions

with experts from Odessa (from 7th to 8th Sept.), study of the cartographic material at hand, plans and other pictorial material; first visits to co-operation partners.

4.3 Continual work in the study groups and in contingent sub-groups. 4.4 Interim presentation of results of the work carried out (on 14th Sept.) 4.5 Final presentation of the study tour results in Odessa (on 25th Sept.) 4.6 Continual work in Vienna and Odessa (until 14th Dec. 2001) 4.7 Visits of professors from Odessa State Academy of Structural Engineering and Architecture

and Metschnikov State University Odessa to Vienna in order to support the final work of the Austrian students and to exchange ideas to continue and intensify co-operation in the years ahead.

4.8 Final presentation of the results at the Vienna University of Technology (suggested date 17th Jan. 2002) and in Odessa (suggested date 22nd March 2002)

5. The Partners and the Role of the Partners

5.1 Teachers of the University Institutes with whom there should be continual co-operation: organisational participation in the workshops which are to be held as agreed upon and at 3 levels: a) the study tour leader and all the responsible teachers, b) the 4 study groups covering the study areas A, B, C and D and c) the plenum of all those from Vienna and Odessa who have been participating continually throughout the study tour.

5.2 Students from the relevant fields of study interest with whom there should be continual co-operation: organisational participation in the regularly held workshops, inspections made on foot, collection of data and suchlike, by agreement and on 3 levels: a) the 4 study groups of the areas A, B, C and D, b) diverse study sub-groups with different participants and c) the plenum of all those participants from Vienna and Odessa.

5.3 Those persons belonging to the city administration, possibly those from architects' offices and also from public administration, building construction companies, from the public utilities (energy and possibly water and transport), who are interested in co-operating. Counselling for the teachers and the students.

5.4 Interpreters for special contacts, if Ukrainian study colleagues are not able to participate in full length.

6. Timetable for the stay in Odessa (see also “4. Activities” and the separated detailed timetable)

On 6th Sept. (tour of city and walks around) as well as on 7th and 8th Sept.: working out the survey on the spatial-functional basic structure of Odessa and its most important problems and development options.


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On 10th Sept establishment of the "Study Group A (Entire City)" (from Austria: 4 urban and regional planning students, students from Odessa), until 14th Sept.: drawing up an inventory and analysing key locations, structural relationships, problems and development options of the City of Odessa, , until 26th Sept.: continual work with regard to risks and chances of selected urban development processes as well as development options and technical, juridical and economic instruments to realise them; answering selected questions of urban planning from the architects / urban planners from Odessa in the "Study Group A". Presentation of the working results of the "Study Group A (entire City)" on the occasion of the first Odessa stay of the teachers and students from Vienna on 25th Sept.

7. Risks affecting Work Progress

7.1 There may be only a limited availability of empirical data on many important issues. 7.2 It is possible that the results of the interviews may not be very reliable. 7.3 The situation in the City might be too complex and thus hamper prompt understanding.


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B. URBAN DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR SELECTED HIGH PRIORITY LOCATIONS (e. g. HARBOUR AREAS, RECREATIONAL AREAS, HOTEL SURROUNDINGS AND SUCHLIKE IN ODESSA ON A SIMILAR SCALE LEVEL)

1. The Objective

Urban design concepts should be worked out for building complexes to be renovated, open space structures and other "hot spots" in selected areas in the City of Odessa. The concepts should be related to the cultural tradition of the city and show options for new development. They should have the character of first proposals rather than being concepts for actualisation, as that is not the main content of the programme at this stage.


Urban design concepts in several structurally important locations of the town (including functional concepts in some detail).

3. Target Groups

3.1 Interested staff of the city administration of Odessa 3.2 Those specialists in Odessa at Universities as well as in building construction and other firms,

who are concerned with town planning 3.3 Interested students of the Universities of Vienna and Odessa

4. Activities

4.0 Preparation in Vienna: to study the history of architecture / construction and urban development with regard to Odessa.

4.1 Introductory tour and walks around the city on 6th Sept. 4.2 Participation of the teachers and students from Vienna in talks and discussions with experts

from Odessa from 7th to 8th Sept. The study of the cartographic material at hand, plans and other pictorial material; first visits to co-operation partners.

4.3 Continual work in the study group and contingent sub-groups of the Field of Study B. 4.4. First joint discussion of the results of the "Study Group B" on 12th Sept., presentation of interim

results on 14th Sept. (The Austrian students of Architecture have to leave Odessa on 17th Sept.). 4.5. Continual work in Vienna and Odessa (until 14th Dec. 2001) 4.6. Visits of professors from Odessa State Academy of Structural Engineering and Architecture


4.7. Final presentation of the results at the Vienna University of Technology (suggested date 17th Jan. 2002) and in Odessa (suggested date 22nd March. 2002)


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5. The Partners and the Role of the Partners

5.1 Teachers of the University Institutes with whom there should be continual co-operation. 5.2 Students from the relevant fields of study with whom there should be continual co-operation. 5.3 Those persons belonging to the city administration, possibly those from architects' offices and

also from town planning firms and building construction firms. 5.4 Interpreters for special contacts if the Ukrainian colleagues are not able to participate.

6. Timetable for the stay in Odessa (see also “4. Activities”” and the separated detailed timetable)

On 6th Sept. (tour of city and walks around) as well as on 8th and 9th Sept.: working out the survey on the spatial-functional basic structure of Odessa and its most important problems and development options. On 10th Sept establishment of the "Study Group B" (from Austria: 3 students of architecture and 4 student of urban and regional planning, students from Odessa). Until 14th Sept.: first joint discussion of the results of the "Study Group B" on 12th Sept., presentation of interim results on 14th Sept.


See Supplement


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C. URBAN RENEWAL: TECHNICAL, SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LEGAL APPROACHES TO THE RESTORATION OF APARTMENT BLOCKS WITH BUSINESS PREMISES (OF WHICH THE FIRST IS STILL TO BE SPECIFIED)

1. The Problems and Objectives

The old centre of Odessa is decaying. Almost 100 buildings have been closed because they are in such a ruinous state that they cannot be restored. Besides the economic crisis in this country, such factors as the following play a major role: • low incomes of most of the inhabitants (due to low productivity or unemployment), • unclear co-existence of property and user rights in blocks of flats, • a lack of personal initiative in the greater part of the population, • for over 70 years the people in Odessa have lacked a "property awareness", • the transition from the commando form of economy to a market economy has led to difficulties at

all levels of the society (lack of clearly defined rules of governance in the public and private sectors of the economy),

• lack of experience with profit and non-profit enterprises (private enterprises, co-operative housing associations),

• no loan at all or only at a very high rate of interest to renovate buildings, • the municipal administration's lack of experience in evaluation of real estate property (important if

building blocks to renovate are sold), and • last, but not least, the municipal administration's lack of experience in the regulation of project

development for urban renewal under market economy conditions and with regard to technical feasibilty, economic efficiency, social acceptability (social balance and justice, fair conditions of exchange), environmental suitability (in particular with regard to energy input) and the aesthetic appeal of buildings which are part of the cultural heritage.

The objective of this field of study is to find out what measures are necessary so that the apartment blocks may be restored and that the initiative for this proceeds from the businessmen, tradesmen and inhabitants using them. It is to be documented with what available instruments the city administration is able to encourage and to direct / control urban development, and why these instruments are not so effective. Then it should be shown by what kind of "restoration contracts" the trust between the participants in a new process of project developments may be increased and secured, and thus allow the forces of self-organisation to be mobilised. Of particular interest are correct answers to the following questions: Which organizational forms of profit and non-profit-making enterprises (including co-operative associations) are legally established and can efficiently be used to bring capital to the different investment activities/enterprises in the required fields of urban renewal? What do these organisational forms imply for the actors involved, such as shareholders (majority and minority position), lenders (hierarchy of securities), management (degree of participation or autonomy in decision-making, risk- and profit-sharing, taxation, international capital transfer etc.), as well as the potential users of the renewed (or new) objects (or parts thereof)?


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It will be attempted to work out the basic features of a new kind of interplay of forces between the setting of norms (ban on the demolition of culturally valuable buildings, non-bureaucratic issue of permits for new economic activities in restored buildings, possibly also tax incentives to encourage investments, etc.) and private economic initiatives to restore apartment blocks with business premises. An actual "test block" should be the focus of this investigation. From the experience gained during the study work in the test block, the necessary basic features of a law should be described, which would possibly encourage this kind of urban renewal. As these objectives are probably impossible to reach in the first stage of co-operation between the Universities and supporting experts in Vienna and Odessa, more realistic results are to be obtained by the current study project: The first objective is to show - what the instruments of public authorities, and in particular local authorities, are; and also - the practical activities of profit and non-profit making firms (in particular co-operative

associations for renovation/construction of blocks of flats) operating in Austria and other European countries, and what they are able to bring about in terms of individual welfare (taking into account their great variety and changes by recent reforms). The second objective is to study how this experience can be used under the present conditions in Odessa.

2. Results

2.1 Insights into the process of urban decay resulting from a lack of clearly defined rules of governance characterizing the housing sector in he City of Odessa.

2.2 A concept (or at least important components of a concept) for the renewal of apartment blocks (case study) and recommendations to possible partners and their roles including a description of technical and financial options of the actors involved.

3. Target Groups

The inhabitants as well as the businessmen and tradesmen and potential investors of private capital.

4. Activities

4.0 Preparation in Vienna and Odessa 4.1 Introductory tour and walks around the city of Odessa (on 6th Sept. 2001) 4.2 Participation exclusively for the teachers and students from Vienna in talks and discussions

with experts from Odessa (from 7th to 8th Sept.), study of reports and various empirical material describing housing situations in Odessa, study of legal framework, rules and regulations at hand, plans and other pictorial material; first visits to co-operation partners.

4.3 Work plan in the study group (partly subdivided in contingent sub-groups): An inventory is to be made of at least one but better 2-3 building blocks with the data on the following: • inventory of the contents of the building, • state of the building itself from different perspectives of structural engineering and

architecture, • the structure of ownership,


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• the structure of utilisation, • the structure of occupancy, • the standards of the apartments, • trades/businesses, local purveyors/suppliers, • open spaces (public, semi-public and private), • key real estate, from which impulses for renewal could arise.

The characteristics marking an apartment block as being suitable as a "test block" have to be identified. Parallel to this, elements of an initiative to raise the image of the densely built-up area should be developed (location marketing). For, on the one hand, the investors must be induced to invest their capital in the old city quarter and, on the other hand, the good image of the endowment also contributes to the identity not only of the district as such but also to its occupants.

A test block must be selected and further data gathered to gain deeper insights, and also the exemplary concept of renewal (or at least important parts of such a concept) must be developed.

4.4 Interim presentation of results of the work carried out (on 14th Sept.) 4.5 Final presentation of the results of the study tour in Odessa (on 25th Sept.) 4.6 Continual work in Vienna and Odessa (until 14th Dec. 2001) 4.7 Consultations by experts from the City of Vienna, co-operative housing associations and

Austrian private firms operating in sectors relevant for the subjects to study and supporting the study programme at different stages of work.

4.8 Visits of professors from the Odessa State Academy of Structural Engineering and Architecture and Metschnikov State University Odessa to Vienna in order to support the final work of the Austrian students and to exchange ideas to continue and intensify co-operation in the years ahead.

4.9 Final presentation of the results at the Vienna University of Technology (suggested date 17th Jan. 2002) and in Odessa (suggested date 22nd March 2002)

5. Partners and the role of partners

From Odessa, students (and, of course, teachers) of law, business economics, public administration as well as structural engineering and architecture should participate to cope with the multifarious (and inter-linked) analytical problems and planning challenges to be expected. A potential "on-the-spot organiser" of a block selected could play a considerable role in this student project, and should be someone whose position is independent. The inventory made and the development of the concept should be carried out by the students according to the guidelines from the professors of the different subjects. From an urban development point of view, the City of Odessa has to adopt a controlling and regulatory function to prevent investors from simply doing only that which ultimately pays off for them but not for others. Those immediately concerned, namely the people who live and work in this area, have also an important role to play. It is hoped that the "self-help model" (some form of co-operative housing association) may bring about a valuable contribution to the realisation of these concepts. Clarifying the roles of the various transactors who are necessary in the process of urban renewal, and bringing them


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into operation within a well established legal framework, could accelerate the growth of the local economy and, by an increase of the level of employment and income, stimulate long-term saving for the improvement of housing conditions in Odessa.

6. Timetable for the stay in Odessa (see also “3. Activities” ” and the separated detailed timetable)

On 6th Sept. (tour of city and walks around) as well as on 8th and 9th Sept.: working out the survey on the spatial-functional basic structure of Odessa and its most important problems and development options. On 10th Sept establishment of the "Study Group C" (from Austria: 3 students of urban and regional planning, more students, and of various fields of study, from Odessa – see above). From approx. 10th-14th Sept. an inventory has to be made so that afterwards a renewal concept can be developed. At the same time a search will be made for persons / organisations and potential investors who are possibly interested in participating in such a project development. Contacts will be made with prospective co-operation partners. Until 25th Sept. the results of the inventory obtained by the “Study Group C” will be presented to the total student group, and on 25th Sept. the final results will be presented to all participants.


7.1 Official data may not be available, interviews to collect data are necessary but need a lot of time; the occupants of the building block(s) selected may be unwilling to co-operate.

7.2 To cross borderlines of very different academic disciplines (law, business economics, public administration, constructural engineering and architecture) will be very difficult and time consuming, but seems to be necessary for success.


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D. PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN SMALL-SCALE COMBINED HEAT AND POWER STATIONS FOR THE SELF-SUFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF PROCESS HEATING/COOLING AND ELECTRIC CURRENT, SUPPLYING ELECTRIC CURRENT SURPLUS TO THE COMMUNAL GRID DURING PEAK LOAD PERIODS

1. The Objective

It should be studied whether a small-scale combined heat and power station (gas or oil fired and driven by a motor or a micro-turbine) providing energy to a medium-sized business in Odessa requiring continued heating and/or cooling could be established in a way that it is economically feasible. The waste heat of such stations normally is sufficient to drive a generator of electric current more powerful than is needed by the business requiring heating and/or cooling. This might permit a positive side-effect of such non-central stations: possibly to ease electricity shortage at the City level through supplying electric current surplus to the communal grid. Maybe the contribution of investing and running such a station to the gross domestic product is higher than the corresponding loss of GDP due to the reduction of receipts of the central communal energy provider after having lost the former customer. Whenever this is the case, it is then efficient to reduce central power production and to increase non-central power production at appropriate locations/businesses under appropriate conditions. To find such locations /businesses and to identify those conditions is the objective of this part of the student project. A search will be made to find enterprises which urgently need a reliable source of self-sufficient energy provision and which are also in a position to pay for this, if their earnings increase due to guaranteed energy provision by themselves directly (e. g. manufacturing enterprises, such as breweries, slaughter-houses and suchlike, maybe also businesses offering attractive consumption services including care for and/or recreation of higher income groups, e. g. sanatoria or sport facilities combined with private schools and suchlike).


2.1 It should be found out in which buildings such an economic project could be economically feasible and what requirements need to be fulfilled (e.g., the non-bureaucratic issue of permits to draw energy from non-central power plants, legal and technically feasible instruments to cope with the risks of this commercial activity).

2.2 Feasibility study for investment by medium-sized enterprises in small-scale combined heat-and-power-stations (technically, economically, and with regard to administrative permissions and commercial guarantees to get reliable interconnections with the City’s energy networks for natural gas and electricity).

2.3 Increased knowledge of factors constituting chances for and/or risks of restricting such investments; insights into the instruments of the City of Odessa to support such investments, being able to cope with the risks prevailing at present.

3. The Target Groups

3.1 Potential investors in small-scale combined heat and power stations


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3.2 Representatives of central energy producing enterprises in Odessa 3.3 Representatives of banks and other firms dealing with energy planning and investment finance 3.4 Public servants being in charge of energy market regulation 3.5 Representatives of various professional institutions or agencies in Odessa and Galati dealing

with enegy 3.6 Interested teachers and students from academic institutions

4. Activities

4.1 Preliminary preparations will be made in Vienna. 4.2 A local inspection will be made in Odessa to become acquainted with the city. 4.3 A search will be made to find suitable objects, and then a selection will be made accordingly. 4.4 Contacts with potential investors (see "3. Target Groups”) will be made and developed. 4.5 Data will be looked for to provide a basis for preparing the first draft. 4.6 A draft will be prepared of the project. 4.7 Back in Vienna, the draft on investment and operation will be worked out and be backed by

permanent e-mail contact with the Ukrainian partners. 4.8 Consultations by experts from Austrian firms operating in sectors relevant for the subjects to

study and supporting the study programme at different stages of work. 4.9 Visits of professors from Odessa State Academy of Structural Engineering and Architecture


4.10 Final presentation of the results at the Vienna University of Technology (suggested date 17th Jan. 2002) and in Odessa (suggested date 22nd March 2002).

5. The Partners

5.1 Approx. 1-2 Ukrainian students of energy technology and 1 professor 5.2 Approx. 1-2 Ukrainian students of economics with knowledge or great interest in energy

economics and 1 professor 5.3 Approx.1 Ukrainian student of law and 1 professor 5.4 One member of the staff of the Urban Technology Service Centre in Odessa. Informants: • the staff of the municipal enterprise supplying energy • Managers of firms (and other organisational units) which require a power plant having not much

more than an installed capacity of between approx. 100 kW and 3 MW and who are ready to consider investment in a small-scale combined heat and power station for the self-sufficient production of energy

• Experts on the situation of refuse disposal sites, being of interest for energy production.


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6. Timetable for the stay in Odessa (see also “4. Activities” ” and the separated detailed timetable)

On 6th Sept. (a guided tour of the city and free walks around) as well as on 7th and 8th Sept.: Participation in working out the survey on the spatial-functional basic structure of Odessa and its most important problems and development options, with special regard to a) energy shortages during winter time, intermediate scale enterprises with high energy consumption and similar establishments, b) location and situation of refuse disposal sites as these are of interest for energy production. On 10th Sept establishment of the "Study Group D". Until 25th Sept.: "Study Group D" works out an interim report on its contribution to this project, presentation of the results on 25th September.


7.1 Lack of support by potential private investors, initiated (a) by their lack of trust in the institutional framework of the communal energy sector and (b) by shortage of own capital coupled with too high rates of interest rates.

7.2 Lack of support from communal energy suppliers because of the risk of losing customers. 7.3 Regulatory framework (e.g. permits, long term treaties etc.) is not yet developed properly.

8. Method

8.1. A search should be made for buildings or groups of buildings situated next to each other, preferably with a connection to the city's natural-gas network and, as far as possible, with a continuous level of heating and/or cooling needs over a period of at least 3,500 hours per annum. The heating and/or cooling needs should be not much greater than a very small combined heat and power station, driven by a gas- or oil-fired motor, or a micro-turbine can produce in an economically feasible way: therefore a plant having not more installed capacity than 100 kW to 1 MW therm. would be ideal (up to approx. 2-3 MW is acceptable).

There is a certain disadvantage to such small plants – higher investment costs per kW and higher operating costs per kWh – but this will most probably be more than compensated by the following advantages of such a small plant: First of all, through lower resistance and thus lower costs for dissolving the former delivery contracts and for the closing of new contracts, in other words, less "transaction costs"; secondly, smaller investment costs make investment easier, particularly when high risk prevails; thirdly, small non-central energy plants can be more often developed under different conditions in different parts of the town and this will bring about mutual learning processes and support the discovery of successful solutions.

In order to check this, the installed capacity of such a non-central energy supply could be roughly compared with another non-central power plant having the installed capacity of some 5-10 MW therm. The optimisation tasks lie therefore in the search of a plant having that particular size that the total costs of a non-central energy supply solution (consisting of capital, operating, fuel and transaction costs) are kept to a minimum.


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8.2. A continuous level of heating or cooling can be expected in the following kinds of businesses:

a) certain industries and trades (e.g. slaughterhouses, sausage producers, breweries, market gardens, and other food producers, b) businesses offering services such as hotels, open-air and indoor swimming pools, shopping centres and suchlike, c) administrative buildings and public halls, including those for energy intensive leisure activities, d) schools, penal institutions, e) hospitals, health centres, sanatoria, f) other appropriate businesses and h) possibly residential blocks, especially if they include, or are situated near, such business.

8.3. The economic success of the non-central energy producing plant is to be expected only then,

when it is being run according to the demand for heating. This is because whenever calorific energy is transformed, there is, as a rule, so much residual heat that this is more than enough to provide also the electric energy required for the customer who needs heating and / or cooling. In other words, electricity can be regarded as being an additional output potential. The probable electricity surplus which can be produced should – at a tariff to be negotiated – be fed into the network of the city works. If, in addition to this, the peak load of the non-central provider of this surplus electricity is timed not to occur simultaneously with the total city peak load, a higher price is justified and can be obtained. Thus, the non-central small-scale plant reduces the shortage on the total city level as well.

8.4. To show the demand for process heating and/or cooling with regard to the problem at hand,

there are two curves which have to be empirically estimated: a) the average daily load curve [diagram: time (0-24 hours, each divided into half- or quarter-hour periods) x actually demanded power therm.], which shows the daytime course of demand, and b) the structured load curve [diagram: time (8,670 hours) x actually demanded power therm.], which shows, in ordered succession of all hours in a year, how much of the available installed capacity of the plant was actually put to use to satisfy demand (e.g. the full load occurring during, let’s say, only 3,500 of the 8,760 hours of the year). This curve shows also the level of the basic load, i. e. satisfied by that minimal power which is utilised continually throughout the whole year. This might allow the advantageous selection of 3 plant modules of the combined heat and power station with the greatest possible occupation of the surface under the structured load curve (showing the energy demand in kWh).

8.5. One task of the students is to provide both of the above mentioned load curves for electricity

from the municipal works of Odessa to supply the entire urban area and a comparison with the electricity load curves of the respective non-central plant under scrutiny groups to be able to ascertain the possible load divergences in time (= identification of the potential supply to the city grid).

8.6. Another task is to determine the possible tariff for feeding the electric current surplus into the

city grid, and also the tariff that is necessary for the profitable operation of the small-scale combined heat and power stations.

8.7 It is probably of great importance to determine the deregulatory requirements for the

dissolution of existing delivery contracts and the requirements for the closing of new contracts involving a high degree of trust.


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8.8. A still further task which is possibly easier to cope with for the student projects in the coming year, is to determine the possibilities of Ukrainian firms manufacturing internal-combustion engines (i.e. motors, such as those which are utilised also in diesel locomotives), which can be the heart of such small-scale power plants.

E. OPTIONS FOR A TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER IN ODESSA (1.

Case studies in Austrian Cities, 1.1 Tasks and responsibilities, 1.2 Data base, 1.3 Man power, 1.4 Tourism marketing strategies 2. Conditions, options and instruments of the development of a TIC in Odessa; Work programme not yet finished)

F. SUPPLEMENT: GENERAL RISKS AFFECTING WORK PROGRESS 1. There may be a lack of communication if the Ukrainian colleagues cannot participate in all of

the activities which the Austrian participants intend to carry out, and vice versa. 2. There may be a limited availability of empirical data on many important issues. 3. There may be a break in the co-operation between the Austrian students of architecture and the

other participants because it is unfortunately unavoidable that the former have to return to Austria already on 12th Sept.

4. Because information, which is available on the spot in Odessa, is not easily obtainable from Vienna, difficulties might arise when the Austrian participants work out the results of this study tour after their return to Vienna (therefore intensive e-mail communication is necessary).

5. It is possible that, in the period from the end of September 2001 until January/February 2002, the bringing together of the results obtained by the Austrian and Ukrainian participants in this study may turn out to be insufficient.

6. There is some uncertainty who of the Austrian study-tour participants will be at the presentation of the final results of the project in February/March 2002 in Odessa.

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