Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision
AbstractContemporary housing systems neither live up to their social nor their ecological aims, resulting in affordability and environmental crises. We explore the potentials for securing access to affordable and adequate housing for all while rapidly reducing energy and resource use and associated...
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| description | AbstractContemporary housing systems neither live up to their social nor their ecological aims, resulting in affordability and environmental crises. We explore the potentials for securing access to affordable and adequate housing for all while rapidly reducing energy and resource use and associated greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. For this purpose, we carry out a case study of the housing system in Vienna to scrutinize how social-ecological provision has been enabled or restrained by Viennese housing regulations. We introduce a broad conceptualization of housing that encompasses material objects (housing as noun) and socio-cultural practices (housing as verb) and embed these concepts in a provisioning perspective. The history of Vienna’s housing system is outlined with an emphasis on the radical municipal reformism of Red Vienna (1919–1934) and path dependencies from welfare capitalism to neoliberalism. Based on the historical analysis, we highlight barriers hindering social-ecological housing provision today and suggest three sets of measures for greening Red Vienna: (1) Establishing social-ecological obligations to property ownership, prioritizing ecological upgrading, and favoring retrofitting instead of new constructions; (2) introducing lower and upper limits on housing provision to reduce inequalities; and (3) overcoming the focus on individual building sites and widening the scope of housing policies toward securing habitation for all residents. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c40677bc71749479ef2662b1f901e602024-02-21T15:26:29ZengTaylor & Francis GroupSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy1548-77332024-12-0120110.1080/15487733.2024.2312674Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provisionAndreas Novy0Benjamin Baumgartner1Simon Grabow2Leonhard Plank3Hans Volmary4Institute for Multi-level Governance and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Multi-level Governance and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Multi-level Governance and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaResearch Unit Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Vienna University of Technology Wien, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Multi-level Governance and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaAbstractContemporary housing systems neither live up to their social nor their ecological aims, resulting in affordability and environmental crises. We explore the potentials for securing access to affordable and adequate housing for all while rapidly reducing energy and resource use and associated greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. For this purpose, we carry out a case study of the housing system in Vienna to scrutinize how social-ecological provision has been enabled or restrained by Viennese housing regulations. We introduce a broad conceptualization of housing that encompasses material objects (housing as noun) and socio-cultural practices (housing as verb) and embed these concepts in a provisioning perspective. The history of Vienna’s housing system is outlined with an emphasis on the radical municipal reformism of Red Vienna (1919–1934) and path dependencies from welfare capitalism to neoliberalism. Based on the historical analysis, we highlight barriers hindering social-ecological housing provision today and suggest three sets of measures for greening Red Vienna: (1) Establishing social-ecological obligations to property ownership, prioritizing ecological upgrading, and favoring retrofitting instead of new constructions; (2) introducing lower and upper limits on housing provision to reduce inequalities; and (3) overcoming the focus on individual building sites and widening the scope of housing policies toward securing habitation for all residents.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15487733.2024.2312674HousingViennahabitationtransformationprovisioningclimate change |
| spellingShingle | Andreas Novy Benjamin Baumgartner Simon Grabow Leonhard Plank Hans Volmary Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy Housing Vienna habitation transformation provisioning climate change |
| title | Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision |
| title_full | Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision |
| title_fullStr | Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision |
| title_full_unstemmed | Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision |
| title_short | Greening Red Vienna: lessons for social-ecological housing provision |
| title_sort | greening red vienna lessons for social ecological housing provision |
| topic | Housing Vienna habitation transformation provisioning climate change |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15487733.2024.2312674 |
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