What Can the Housing Market Teach Us? University Fieldtrips Identify Current Transitions in Vienna’s Urban Development and Housing Market Policies

Autor(en)

Elisabeth Gruber, Yvonne Franz

Abstrakt

Vienna's housing market serves as a posterchild example for affordable and social housing that includes the heritage of the "Red Vienna" housing projects, the city's "Soft Urban Renewal Programme" as well as current housing projects in newly built urban development areas. Today, many European cities are suffering from tight housing markets and increasing rents, so in recent years the success of the housing market in Vienna has become ever more an object of interest. But also the Viennese housing market has been undergoing dynamic transformation in recent years. Although a large number of new dwellings have been created in both, the private and the public sector over the past ten years, rising rents are showing increasing demand for housing. This development is not just caused by growing population numbers, but also by shifting investment interests in the Vienna housing market, which produce affordability and access restrictions. Adequate and affordable housing is currently becoming a challenge for residents in Vienna.

Over four consecutive semesters, Yvonne Franz and Elisabeth Gruber have been collecting evidence for housing market transformations by organising three-day fieldtrips for Master's students at the University of Vienna. In addition to examining recent urban development forms and their resonance in the wider academic discourse, this article also shows how fieldtrips can be used as an important didactic tool in graduate education.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

Journal

Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft

Band

161

Seiten

379-394

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0029-9138

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg161s379

Publikationsdatum

12-2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

507020 Stadtforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geography, Planning and Development, Earth-Surface Processes

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 – Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8a177960-f2fb-413d-8fde-8c13da6a57a5