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Navigating between improvement and habitation: countermovements in housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna

In: Capitalism in Transformation

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  • Andreas Novy
  • Richard Bärnthaler
  • Basil Stadelmann

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This chapter investigates the history of housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna by analysing the dialectics between improvement and habitation. It discusses countermovements seeking for habitation in five historical periods: an anti-liberal countermovement (Vienna before 1918), a social-democratic countermovement (Red Vienna, 1919-34), fascist countermovements (1934-45), the institutionalization of the social-democratic countermovement (1945-89), and its erosion (1989 onwards). This historical analysis demonstrates the ambivalence of anti-market countermovements, as they are not unconditionally promoting holistic forms of social cohesion, peaceful communal life, and emancipation. Improvement is not always destructive and habitation not always unifying. Their outcomes depend on their specific form of implementation and framing. The chapter ends with a reflection on how to navigate between improvement and habitation today.

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  • Andreas Novy & Richard Bärnthaler & Basil Stadelmann, 2019. "Navigating between improvement and habitation: countermovements in housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna," Chapters, in: Roland Atzmüller & Brigitte Aulenbacher & Ulrich Brand & Fabienne Décieux & Karin Fischer & Birgit (ed.), Capitalism in Transformation, chapter 16, pages 228-244, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Stephan Leixnering & Markus Höllerer, 2022. "‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(6), pages 1300-1310, May.

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