Based on the authors personal experience in growing up and living in the city, this thesis aims to investigate and uncover the situation of students and young adults in the alpine-urban context of the student city Innsbruck in Austria. Through interviews and analysis of available spaces and events, a dichotomy between tourism and traditional culture and young culture as well as a lack of space and visibility of young people and their needs in urban space and politics and law making, is being uncovered. Learning from young initiatives in the city and counteracting ongoing proceedings, this project ends up in a design proposal along the riverside: raving over the riverside, providing new spaces and policies for young people. By reuse of existing and abandoned buildings as well as unused in-between and rarely used park areas, the riverside gets activated and acts as a space for young people to be seen in the city, interact with each other and use the area for a variety of different purposes.