1. Is Vienna still a just city? The challenges of transitions PART I: Political participation 2. Still a red island? Vienna’s electoral geography between stability and change 3. Unlocking the door of the city hall: Vienna’s participatory shift in urban development policy PART II: Housing 4. Affordable housing for all? Challenging the legacy of Red Vienna 5. Innovating social housing? Tracing the social in social housing construction PART III: Labour market 6. Between protection and activation: shifting institutional arrangements and ‘ambivalent’ labour market policies in Vienna 7. Professionalisation, polarisation or both? Economic restructuring and new divisions of labour PART IV: Environment 8. Vienna’s urban green space planning: great stability amid global change 9. Environmental quality for everyone? Socio-structural inequalities in mobility, access to green spaces and air quality 10. Vienna’s resilience: between urban justice and the challenges ahead
Biography
Yuri Kazepov is a professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria). Among his fields of interest are multilevel governance, the territorial dimension of social policies. On these issues, he has been carrying out comparative research and evaluation activities for the EU and National Agencies.
Roland Verwiebe is a professor of Social Stratification Research at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include the domains of social inequality, migration, attitudes and values as well as quality of life in the city. On these topics, he has published in leading international journals.
