Rebuilding Cities And Citizens Mass Housing In Red Vienna And Cold War Berlin Margaret Haderer by Margaret Haderer 9789463724944, 946372494X instant download after payment.

In Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing was not only a response to a dire social need, but also served as a key lever for building socialism and liberalism. Zooming into the interplay between ideologies and the production of space, this book shows that ideologies are never simply ‘written’ into space, but that their meaning is made and re-made, negotiated and contested, and sometimes cunningly subverted in and through space. How people live was and continues to be a profoundly political question that involves negotiations of and decisions on norms and ideals of citizenship, freedom, equality, property, democracy, family life, and gender relations – negotiations and decisions comes with legacies.