The new book from departure, the creative center of the Vienna Business Agency, shows Vienna beyond rampant vintage beatitude and tourist clichés and focuses on the present and the future of independent creative work: on design projects that initiate, support and reflect processes relevant to society and urban development policy. Aside from fundamental theoretical considerations of urban development, the book also focuses on the new life cultures, the new creative works and the associated renaissance of localism, and at the same time presents projects and actors and discusses perspectives for a future built on this.

With numerous pictorial and text contributions from supported projects and texts from contributors such as Wolf Lotter (Brand eins), Hanno Rauterberg (Die Zeit), Thomas Weber (the gap, Biorama).