Social housing in Vienna is unique. More than half the city's residents live in subsidised residential complexes,many of which have been designed by renowned architects. The Viennese-born Australian architect Harry Seidler created an important architectural and urban landmark with his Neue Donau Housing Estate.This book documents the internationally acclaimed building complex as well as the development and conditions for social housing in Vienna.

"Vienna is different". For years this has been the city ofVienna's logo. It seems that for no other part of its ad-ministration this is so fitting as for Vienna housing. Vi-enna's social housing originated from an internationallyacknowledged reform programme in the 1920s and hasbeen developed since then up until the present day. 60% of all Vienna residents live in subsidised apartments,including 220,000 in council housing. At present, Vien-na has close to 1,7 million inhabitants.

Einleitung/Introduction

I 80 Jahre sozialer Wohnungsbau in Wien/

80 Years of Social Housing in Vienna

Wiens Grunderzeit- Traum und Wirklichkeit/Vienna in the Late Nineteenth Century - Dream versus Reality

Die Wiener Siedlerbewegung: Wohnungsreform von unten /

The Vienna Settlers' Movement: Grassroot Housing Reform

Das Rote Wien/Red Vienna

Wohnungsbau als Teil einer sozialen Stadtplanung/Housing as Part of Social Urban Development

Von der Siedlerbewegung zur Werkbundsiedlung/From Settlers' Movement to Werkbundsettlement

Faschismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg/Fascism and World War II

Sozialer Wohnungsbau nach 1945 / Public Housing after 1945

Die sanfte Stadterneuerung/The 'Soft Urban Renewal'

Wohnungsbau der 70er und 80er Jahre/Social Housing in the 1970s and the 1980s

Innovative Architektur heute/Innovative Architecture Today

Wien an die Donau/New Housing at the Danube

Sozialwohnungen im Hochhaus?/Social Housing in Tower Blocks?

Wohnen im Industriebau/Housing in Former Industrial Buildings

II Wohnpark Neue Donau: Planung und Entwurfsentwicklung/

Planning and Designing the Neue Donau Housing Estate

Wohnpark Neue Donau/Neue Donau Housing Estate

Die Wohnungen/The Apartments

Kindergarten/Kindergarten

Gemeinschaftsraume/Communal Facilities

Die Kunstwerke/The Works of Art

Kino- und Entertainmentcenter/Cinema and Entertainment Centre

Das Hochhaus/The Tower

Bautechnik/Building Techniques

Resumee / Resume