Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin

This book shows that ideologies, understood as political beliefs that underpin everyday life, 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.

Margarete Haderer obtained her PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. She works as a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Technical University Vienna.