The last sentence in this Huffington Post article is: "Can the Viennese public housing model be replicated in a city near you?" - we can all answer this with yes. A tiny bit of info about Gemeindebau (maybe next seemster we will zoom in on this):
CLICK here
(Thanks Nora Ruck for this link!)
One of the projects mentioned in this article is the Alt Erlaa one (at U6). It was finished in the late 70s ... I did not know about it until now, might be really worth to focus on this next semester with an excursion.
ReplyDeletehere is a youtube preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35YdhKWjaEg
11.000 people live there. Would be interesting to see how it worked out, now, 35 years after the first people moved in.