Bernard Rouleau · 1990
Bernard Rouleau reviews the fifth delivery of supplementary maps for the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning's Atlas of Spatial Development in Austria (ÖROK-Atlas). The collection then contained 95 sheets; eight new sheets appeared in 1987 following nineteen published in 1986. The 297 × 630 mm landscape sheets fold into three to fit an A4 screw binding. Most maps are at 1:1,000,000, with some smaller-scale maps grouped on a single sheet. Rouleau notes the growing prominence of graphics and statistical and analytical data, vivid colors, and accompanying explanatory texts and statistical tables, which he praises; nearly all maps present data by municipality. The two series cover population change, work and employment, industry, housing, commerce and enterprise, water management, and natural areas and environments. He singles out the maps of legal nature-protection regulations and housing, and judges the still-incomplete collection a valuable, up-to-date documentary source on Austria.
Bernard Rouleau · 1991
This article presents a new series of maps from the Atlas of the Evolution of Austrian Space (ÖROK-Atlas), published in Vienna in 1988. The sixth installment comprises eleven map plates in an oblong format of 297 × 630 mm, at scales of 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000, accompanied by commentary texts and statistical data. Themes covered include: projected variations in household numbers by municipality from 1971 to 2001 (four maps); employment numbers and their evolution from 1991 to 2001 under optimistic and pessimistic scenarios; a labor market balance incorporating net migration for 1981-2001 (four maps); mining and forestry exploitation difficulty by region (large-format map); average annual growth rate of net domestic product by region for 1971-1986; railway traffic conditions (track gauge, speed, speed limits in 1988-89, and passenger traffic capacity and speed by section in 1989-90); Austria's hydrological and hydrogeological regime; water quality and pollution levels of Austrian rivers; and the 1985-88 forest inventory, using an original dot-matrix expression with colors modulated by forest degradation degree. The author concludes that this set of original themes undeniably strengthens the atlas's value as a documentation source on Austria, particularly regarding its evolution prospects over the next two decades.
Ingrid Kretschmer · 1991
Ingrid Kretschmer describes the Atlas zur räumlichen Entwicklung Österreichs, first issued in 1984, as a kind of successor to Austria's completed national atlas. Prepared by the Austrian Institute for Regional Planning (ÖIR) for the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning (ÖROK), it used computer-assisted production to present current spatial-development information quickly and economically. By autumn 1991, eight deliveries comprised 135 map sheets containing 237 main and subsidiary maps, plus 25 sheets of tables and texts. Most maps were single-variable choropleths at municipal level at 1:1 million, with some district or planning-region maps at 1:3 million. Kretschmer notes that these maps could be produced quickly but also became outdated quickly; updating intervals ranged from annual revisions for highly current data to ten-year cycles for census-based maps. Alongside inventories and planning information, the atlas included forecasts. She singles out typological maps of second homes, transport accessibility and tourism problem areas, emphasizing the latter's use in planning. There were no separate commentary volumes beyond a six-page introduction published in 1984, though many sheets included tables and explanatory comments, supplemented by ÖROK spatial-planning reports. Publication was to continue in the 1990s.
