Disciplines
History, Archaeology (50%); Human Geography, Regional Geography, Regional Planning (50%)
Keywords
Dictatorial Austrian Cooperative State,
Housing- And Settlement-Policy,
Architectorical Style,
Urban Development,
Welfare- And Deproletarianziation Policy,
History Of Vienna
Abstract
The main focus of the book "Das Schwarze Wien: Ständestaatliche Bautätigkeit 1934-1938" lies on
the housing- and settlement-policy of the dictatorial Austrian Corporative State, the so called
Ständestaat, between 1934 and 1938. The book will shed light on the political and economical
strategies of its housing-policy in national and international context.
The fundamental change to reprivatization aimed the destruction of the social-housing-policy of Red
Vienna. Within this unique communal phase between 1921 and 1934, the socialist city government of
Vienna built nearly 60.000 apartments. This only was possible because of the establishment of new
forms of communal administration for the construction of buildings. The influence of architectonical
style of perimeter development persisted.
Building strategies of the Austrian Corporative State were part of the European dialogue based on
proto-fascistic urban development and planning of the city of Rome in the 1930ies. The strategies of
bridge and road construction for the establishment of Vienna as a car-friendly city and the expansion
of the public transport system were topics of this dialogue. Further aims like the redevelopment of the
inner city, the erection of monumental buildings for the unity party Nationalistic Front, the so called
Vaterlaendische Front, the expansion of administration areas, the establishment of the garden city-
and allotment-movement and the rebuilding of informal settlements will also be provided.
The visualisation of the Vienna of the Austrian Corporative State is supported by a large number of
pictorial materials and a list of the flats, single-family-houses and multiple family dwellings,
settlements, infrastructure-buildings, numerous churches and monumental buildings.