Walter Strzygowski

Walter Strzygowski (born July 20, 1908 in Graz , Styria, † July 4, 1970 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geographer .

• 1949–55 employee, then director of the Freytag-Berndt publishing house
• 1955 university professor at the Institute for Geography
• from 1958 director of the Vienna Institute for Spatial Planning at the University of World Trade

His research areas were spatial planning , economic geography and regional planning . His adaptations of the economic maps in the 100-year edition of the "Austrian Middle School Atlas" in 1961 (formerly Kozenn Atlas) by Ed. Hölzel in Vienna. After his death Strzygowski was buried at the Gersthofer Friedhof (group 2, row 14, number 49) in an honorary grave .

Fonts

• The urban future of Vienna. Proposals for the future design of the city (Austrian contributions to cultural research. 1.), Vienna 1948
• The division of Austria and the Eastern Alps into landscapes (Reports on German Regional Studies 1.11), Stuttgart 1952
• Europe needs nature parks. Proposals for the protection of the most beautiful landscapes in Europe , Horn 1959
• with Walter Waldhör: The future design of landscape and economy in the Austrian Danube Valley (publications of the Institute for Spatial Planning of the University for World Trade in Vienna. 6.), Horn 1961
• with Gertraud Repp, Randolf Rungaldier, Wigand Ritter, Franz Zwittkowitz: The design of Europe's sunny coasts - Part 1: Southeast Europe , Stuttgart 1966
• with Gertraud Repp: The design of the sunny coasts of Europe - Part 2: The coasts of Italy , Stuttgart 1969
• with Wigand Ritter: Geographie (Knowledge of the Present), Berlin and Darmstadt 1970

literature

• Felix Jülg, Christian Staudacher (written): Thoughts and visions of a spatial planner and geographer. Walter Strzygowski on his 80th birthday. Memorial Colloquium on June 24, 1989 (Wiener geographische Schriften. 61.), Vienna 1990

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Strzygowski in the catalog of the German National Library