Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterized by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs. The book questions and assesses the city's resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterize the European city model, within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types. Vienna: still a just city? is aimed at academics, researchers and policy-makers in urban studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare"-- Provided by publisher.

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1. Is Vienna still a just city? The challenges of transitions, Yuri Kazepov and Roland Verwiebe POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 2. Still a red island? Vienna⁰́₉s electoral geography between stability and change, Elisabetta Mocca and Michael Friesenecker 3. Unlocking the door of the city hall: Vienna⁰́₉s participatory shift in urban development policy, Byeongsun Ahn and Elisabetta Mocca HOUSING 4. Affordable housing for all? Challenging the legacy of Red Vienna, Katharina Litschauer and Michael Friesenecker 5. Innovating social housing? Tracing the social in social housing construction, Michael Friesenecker and Katharina Litschauer LABOUR MARKET 6. Between protection and activation: shifting institutional arrangements and ⁰́₈ambivalent⁰́₉ labour market policies in Vienna, Byeongsun Ahn and Yuri Kazepov 7. Professionalisation, polarisation or both? Economic restructuring and new divisions of labour, Bernhard Riederer, Roland Verwiebe and Byeongsun Ahn ENVIRONMENT 8. Vienna⁰́₉s urban green space planning: great stability amid global change, Anna-Katharina Brenner, Elisabetta Mocca and Michael Friesenecker 9. Environmental quality for everyone? Socio-structural inequalities in mobility, access to green spaces and air quality, Michael Friesenecker, Bernhard Riederer and Roberta Cucca 10. Vienna℗þs resilience: between urban justice and the challenges ahead, Roland Verwiebe, Yuri Kazepov, Michael Friesenecker and Byeongsun Ahn

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