Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to inno
Table of Contents
1. Is Vienna still a just city? The challenges of transitions PART I: Political participation 2. Still a red island? Vienna’s electoral geography between stability and change 3. Unlocking the door of the city hall: Vienna’s participatory shift in urban development policy PART II: Housing 4. Affordable housing for all? Challenging the legacy of Red Vienna 5. Innovating social housing? Tracing the social in social housing construction PART III: Labour market 6. Between protection and activation: shifting institutional arrangements and ‘ambivalent’ labour market policies in Vienna 7. Professionalisation, polarisation or both? Economic restructuring and new divisions of labour PART IV: Environment 8. Vienna’s urban green space planning: great stability amid global change 9. Environmental quality for everyone? Socio-structural inequalities in mobility, access to green spaces and air quality 10. Vienna’s resilience: between urban justice and the challenges ahead
