The City within the City – The End of Housing and the Rediscovery of the Home in Vienna’s New Neighborhoods

A genealogy of Viennese housing construction in its territorial context

The history of social housing construction in Vienna traces back almost a hundred years. It began as an emancipatory effort, which sought to use forms of housing both to represent and consolidate social and political arrangements. Like modernist housing in general, Vienna’s social housing can be seen as an attempt to reform particular urban ways of life that were regarded as deficient.

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