response to a dire social need, but also served as a key lever for building socialism and liberalism. Zooming into the interplay between ideologies and the production of space, this book shows that ideologies 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. How people live was and continues to be a profoundly political question that involves negotiations of and decisions on norms and ideals of citizenship, freedom, equality, property, democracy, family life, and gender relations – negotiations and decisions comes with legacies.

Margaret 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.

1 Introduction: The Making and Remaking of Ideologies through Space
2 Municipal Socialism and Housing in Red Vienna (1919–1934)
2.1 Whose City? Appropriating the City, Creating Proletarian Spaces
2.2 For a ‘Slow Revolution’: Austro-Marxist Theory and Housing Policies
2.3 Building for ‘New Men’: Two Approaches to Social Emancipation
2.4 The Lures of the Past in the New Socialist Dwelling Culture
2.5 Red Vienna turning Black
2.6 References
3 Short-Lived Great Berlin: Tabula Rasa and the Reinvention of Nature (1945–1949)
3.1 The Bombing of Cities as ‘History’s Auto-Correction’
3.2 The Metropolis, a Moloch
3.3 Great Berlin: A New Beginning through Greening the City
3.4 References
4 Divided City I: East Berlin and the Construction of Socialism (1949–1970)
4.1 Back to the Future: ‘Socialism in One Country’ and the ‘Beautiful German City’
4.2 Constructing Socialism with Taylor, Defending it with Tanks
4.3 ‘Living Better, Dwelling More Beautifully’: Toward a Socialist Dwelling Culture?
4.4 From the Workers’ Palace back to the Dwelling Machine
4.5 Creative Destruction: The Double Legacy of the Platte
4.6 The Allotment Garden as the Platte's Antidote?
4.7 References
5 Divided City II: West Berlin and the Reconstruction of Liberalism (1949–1970)
5.1 Interbau ’57: Proclaiming the City of Tomorrow, Exhibiting the City of Yesterday
5.2 ‘Economic Policies are the Best Social Policies’: West German Ordo-Liberalism
5.3 Standardized Dwelling, Normalized Living
5.4 Spanners in the Works of Dwelling Machines: Two Experiments in Counter-Culture
5.4.1 The Märkische Viertel: Contesting Abstract Space
5.4.2 Kommune 1: From Minimum to Maximum Existence
5.5 References
6 Conclusion and Postcards from the Past
6.1 References
7 References
8 List of Images
9 Index