Urban development and the housing issue

A cooperation by the Centre of Local Planning at Vienna University of Technology with the Az W

Guests:

Franz Josef Höing, Head of the Building Department of the City of Cologne
Thomas Madreiter, Director of Urban Planning of the City of Vienna
Elisabeth Merk, Munich City Councillor of Spatial Planning & Traffic
Moderated by: Rudolf Scheuvens

Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Vienna …The urban development challenges relating to ensuring affordable and inclusive housing are comparable here. Differences consist primarily in the political bias of the approaches and the instruments. In the context of the IBA Vienna, we are now looking for discussion with representatives of these cities about the major challenges facing ‘new social housing’ in a context of the development of the European city.