Last December, while working at Moscow Urban Forum, I had an opportunity to
meet Thomas Madreiter. He is the City of Vienna's Director of Urban Planning
and the head of “Smart City Wien” project. No doubt, I felt nervous a
bit after I was told I was going to work as an assistant of such a top-level
person. But there was no reason to be nervous: in life Thomas is very
easygoing, sociable and interesting. It was his first visit to Moscow and to
Russia, thus, during the spare time between forum events he looked forward to
take a walk in the city center and, as an urbanist, he was keen to take a ride
in the Moscow metro.
By the way, to host this mini-excursion in
the metro the information I got to know on the excursion, which was organized by
the Department of Cultural Heritage and the Moscow Metro Museum and subsidized
by the Government of Moscow, came handy.
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