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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: The Making and Remaking of Ideologies through Space
- 2. Municipal Socialism and Housing in Red Vienna (1919–1934)
- 2.1 Whose City? Appropriating the City, Creating Proletarian Spaces
- 2.2 For a ‘Slow Revolution’: Austro-Marxist Theory and Housing Policies
- 2.3 Building for ‘New Men’: Two Approaches to Social Emancipation
- 2.4 The Lures of the Past in the New Socialist Dwelling Culture
- 2.5 Red Vienna Turning Black
- 3. Short-Lived Great Berlin: Tabula Rasa and the Reinvention of Nature (1945–1949)
- 3.1 The Bombing of Cities as ‘History’s Auto-Correction’
- 3.2 The Metropolis, A Moloch
- 3.3 Great Berlin: A New Beginning through Greening the City
- 4. Divided City I: East Berlin and the Construction of Socialism (1949–1970)
- 4.1 Back to the Future: ‘Socialism in One Country’ and the ‘Beautiful German City’
- 4.2 Constructing Socialism with Taylor, Defending it with Tanks
- 4.3 ‘Living Better, Dwelling More Beautifully’: Toward a Socialist Dwelling Culture?
- 4.4 From the Workers’ Palace Back to the Dwelling Machine
- 4.5 Creative Destruction: The Double Legacy of the Platte
- 4.6 The Allotment Garden as the Platte’s Antidote?
- 5. Divided City II: West Berlin and the Reconstruction of Liberalism (1949–1970)
- 5.1 Interbau 1957: Proclaiming the City of Tomorrow, Exhibiting the City of Yesterday
- 5.2 ‘Economic Policies Are the Best Social Policies’: German-style Neoliberalism
- 5.3 Standardized Dwelling, Normalized Living
- 5.4 Spanners in the Works of Dwelling Machines: Two Experiments in Counter-Culture
- 6. Conclusion and Postcards from the Past
- References
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- 2.1 Housing Conditions in Vienna around 1900. © Verein für die Geschichte der Arbeiter*innenbewegung (VGA), Vienna
- 2.2 Opening Ceremony of a Municipal Housing Block: “Long Live Vienna!” © Verein für die Geschichte der Arbeiter*innenbewegung (VGA), Vienna
- 2.3 Housing Tax Isotype. Copyright: © Sophie Hochhäusl
- 2.4 Otto Wagner’s Vision of the Modern Metropolis
- 2.5 Karl Marx-Hof (1930). © Bildarchiv Austria
- 2.6 Viennese Settlement Movement, Rosenhügel around 1921. © AH! Vienna
- 2.7 Replica of Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurter Küche, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna. © Gerald Zugmann, Vienna
- 3.1 Berlin in Ruins, Budapester Straße (1945). © ullstein bild
- 3.2 Hans Scharoun’s and his Collective’s Plan for Turning Berlin into a City Landscape. © Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Berlin
- 4.1 Stalin-Allee: Display Window of East German Housing Development. © Bundesarchiv (Germany)
- 4.2 Rubble Clearance, Berlin (1945). © ullstein bild
- 4.3 June 17th, 1953, Russian Tanks, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. © Bundesarchiv
- 4.4 Ernst Neufert’s House Building Maschine, 1943. © Neufert Stiftung, Weimar
- 4.5 East Berlin’s “Plattenbauten”: Marzahn. © Bundesarchiv
- 4.6 Allotment Gardening in Marzahn, 1982. © Bundesarchiv
- 5.1 Interbau 1957, Hansaviertel: Display Window of West German Housing Development. © Landesarchiv Berlin
- 5.2 Ideal(ized) City Landscape
- 5.3 Industrial Norms and their Gender © Neufert Stiftung, Weimar (e-book) & SNCSC (print)
- 5.4 West Berlin’s “Plattenbauten”: Märkisches Viertel. © Landesarchiv Berlin
- 5.5 Protest Against Rent Hikes, Märkisches Viertel, West Berlin, 1971. © ullstein bild
- 5.6 “Kommune 1” Imitating a Police Raid (1967). © SZ Photo
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