“Vienna Could Use More Disorder”

Christoph Reinprecht in conversation with Bernadette Krejs, Christina Lenart, and Michael Obrist

The sociologist Christoph Reinprecht, professor at the University of Vienna, has been researching issues involving the welfare state, social inequality and insecurity, the city, and migration for years. His studies focus mainly on Vienna, taking a detailed look at its municipal social housing to gauge the degree of its actual social sustainability. What follows is a conversation about the change in the meaning of social housing.