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There Is Only One Lesson Of Red Vienna
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/there-is-only-one-lesson-of-red-vienna
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CW: Long thread/17
Vienna has the most successful housing of any major city in the *world*. It's a city where people of every income and background live in comfort without being rent-burdened, without worry about eviction, mold, or leaks. That's the legacy of #RedVienna, the Austrian period of Social Democratic Workers' Party rule and built vast tracts of high-quality public housing. The system was so robust that it rebounded after World War II and continues to this day:
https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/
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#Architecture #Spatiality #SpatialPractice #Cities #Restructuring #Politics #Planning #Vienna #Wien #Space #Agency #UrbanPlanning #GabuHeindl #RedVienna #RAS #RechtAufStadt #CulturesOfAssembly #Podcast
Architecture is politics and, creating new spaces in already existing cities, can only be done by restructuring. The focus on planning to minimize investor involvements and make cities and quarters liveable places to come together and bring also politics into a social space, is still neglected.
When people say that #Hamburg for example is a nice city, you really have to search for open places in which it is possible to meet people in neighborhoods and quarters. This is not only done to maximize housing and business opportunities, but also a political act to minimize places to control social organization.
When #GiletsJaunes started meeting at traffic intersections in #Paris this was also an act to create those political spaces that are missing, or have been taken from us.
Of course, meetings online are easily created and spatiality can be structured while you go, but still directness and emotional factors cannot really be transported.
https://culturesofassembly.org/projects/cultures-of-assembly?keywords=[%22Spatial+practice%22]