Djehuti
19th June 2007, 19:31
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Karl Marx Hof
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red" Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers' dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics, theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. The 64,000 units housed one tenth of the city's population. Throughout this socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative, clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent, political conflict between left and right. Book (http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Red-Vienna-1919-1934/dp/0262024519)
I find city planning and socialist architecture a very interesting subject, especially under such circumstances as the First Austrian Republic and the rise of fascism. What do you know about the Austrian Civil War? What would have happened if the socialists had won? I find it all very interesting, but I know very little at the moment. Any information and discussion regarding Rotes Wien, austomarxism, austrofascism and socialist architecture and city planning would be very appriciated.
II found this text, might be interesting...
February 12, 1934 - 70 year anniversary of the Austrian uprising
http://www.marxist.com/austria-70-annivers...sing-120204.htm (http://www.marxist.com/austria-70-anniversary-uprising-120204.htm)
Karl Marx Hof
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red" Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers' dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics, theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. The 64,000 units housed one tenth of the city's population. Throughout this socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative, clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent, political conflict between left and right. Book (http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Red-Vienna-1919-1934/dp/0262024519)
I find city planning and socialist architecture a very interesting subject, especially under such circumstances as the First Austrian Republic and the rise of fascism. What do you know about the Austrian Civil War? What would have happened if the socialists had won? I find it all very interesting, but I know very little at the moment. Any information and discussion regarding Rotes Wien, austomarxism, austrofascism and socialist architecture and city planning would be very appriciated.
II found this text, might be interesting...
February 12, 1934 - 70 year anniversary of the Austrian uprising
http://www.marxist.com/austria-70-annivers...sing-120204.htm (http://www.marxist.com/austria-70-anniversary-uprising-120204.htm)