"When it comes to progressive urban planning and municipal administration, 'Red Vienna' (1919–1934) remains a common reference point. Best known for its housing programs, this radical municipal project also entailed comprehensive social improvements that included health care, education, child care, and cultural reform efforts. Red Vienna represents a historically specific, social-democratic response to social and political questions that remain relevant today: the distribution of wealth, access to infrastructure, and the reorganization of reproductive labor. Against the backdrop of contemporary challenges to left, urban politics — the struggle for the right to housing, for public reinvestment, and against the rising right — we should look back on this sweeping interwar project to draw out the possibilities and limits of progressive urban politics within a conservative state. ..."
Jacobin
W - Red Vienna
MIT: The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919–1934
Weimar: Red Vienna
YouTube: Vienna Karl Marx-Hof, between 1927 and 1930
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