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  • Stones that speak

    Stones that speak

    On Friday I showed you bits of my neighbourhood, which was created during the days of working class housing- and food shortages that followed World War I and the breakup of the Habsburg Empire.  But of course this problem extended to all of Vienna, and the cooperative garden settlements that were built in the 1920s…

  • Vienna in gold – A Jane´s walk

    Vienna in gold – A Jane´s walk

    Who´s Jane? I´ve been asked this.  So here is a bit of background on the Jane´s Walk Vienna 2018 festival.  These walks are named for Jane Jacobs, who was an American-Canadian journalist, writer, and activist who had great influence on American urban studies, sociology, and how people thought about urban development in the 1950s and…