Thread by @holz_bau

so a few months ago, i was interviewed by @Quicktake for a documentary on social housing in vienna.

vienna is doing so many things right on housing, on climate, on transportation, and on land use.

we should follow suit.

enjoy!

4 years ago over on @CityObs i wrote about housing lessons seattle and other cities in the US should take from vienna, after visiting for the passivhaus conference in 2017.

cityobservatory.org/housing-policy…

at that time, i wrote,

'our zoning, our lack of vision and leadership, our lack of comprehensive planning, our lack of innovation, and most importantly, our lack of funding make such a model difficult'

4 years later, this is still true.

this is a depressing thread on what our land use near light rail stations in seattle metro looks like v. european cities - including vienna.

we're so incredibly bad at city planning, and it's not even close

https://twitter.com/holz_bau/status/1432933529042579462?s=20

and vienna's nearly completed sonnwendviertel is a really good model of how we can build climate resilient, sustainable, affordable ecodistricts.

this thread compares sinnwendviertel w/ northgate - which is roughly the same area. but almost no open space:

https://twitter.com/holz_bau/status/1437536743490605063?s=20

i really cannot recommend enough this really well done video on sonnwendviertel ost, either.

would have loved to raise my kiddos in a neighborhood like this.

english subtitles if ya need them

and it's not just vienna that is doing really interesting things in AT on social housing

neue heimat tirol in innsbruck at one point had built 2 largest passivhaus multifamily buildings in the world - and have collaborated w/ really amazing architects

theurbanist.org/2014/04/07/cit…