Linz an der Donau
go your gait! part6_linz (2008)
Linz an der Donau (A)
190 000 habitants
video_linz
The city of Linz on the Danube has long cultivated partnerships with many other towns. The first contacts go back to 1918 and were student exchange trips with Linz on the Rhine. Linz currently has sixteen official town twinnings and several town friendships on four continents.
Town twinnings are partnerships that cannot be imposed by any authority. They ›thrive‹ entirely from the ideas and commitment of the citizens themselves, and therefore are of differing intensities. (From »All around the world. Twin Cities of Linz«, City of Linz, 2008)
The Linzer Landstraße can be described without exaggeration as the centre city’s main traffic and business axis. All tramlines converge there and run along its entire length; together they cross Hauptplatz and the Danube, then branch off in Urfahr to their different destinations. For thirty years, about two-thirds of Landstraße has been closed to car traffic. The stream of people on foot now flows in two channels: trams in between set the tempo for those wanting to cross to the opposite side.
The recordings were made in 2008. At that time, Linz’s cityscape – undergoing preparations for its year as the European Cultural Capital – was saturated with the visual and aural signs of construction.
Linz an der Donau (A)
190 000 habitants
video_linz
The city of Linz on the Danube has long cultivated partnerships with many other towns. The first contacts go back to 1918 and were student exchange trips with Linz on the Rhine. Linz currently has sixteen official town twinnings and several town friendships on four continents.
Town twinnings are partnerships that cannot be imposed by any authority. They ›thrive‹ entirely from the ideas and commitment of the citizens themselves, and therefore are of differing intensities. (From »All around the world. Twin Cities of Linz«, City of Linz, 2008)
The Linzer Landstraße can be described without exaggeration as the centre city’s main traffic and business axis. All tramlines converge there and run along its entire length; together they cross Hauptplatz and the Danube, then branch off in Urfahr to their different destinations. For thirty years, about two-thirds of Landstraße has been closed to car traffic. The stream of people on foot now flows in two channels: trams in between set the tempo for those wanting to cross to the opposite side.
The recordings were made in 2008. At that time, Linz’s cityscape – undergoing preparations for its year as the European Cultural Capital – was saturated with the visual and aural signs of construction.