Wer baut Wien?

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Vienna has been gripped by a building boom which, in addition to the opening up to the East, is primarily due to Austria's accession to the EU and advancing globalisation; the city fathers speak of a 'second Gründerzeit'. In this book, Reinhard Seiß dissects how the City of Vienna's planning policy reacted to the new situation and what political and economic motives were at play. With the honest assistance of planning and archive material, he brings to light why the Millennium Tower has become more than 60 metres taller than originally approved, how a high-rise district could be built on the Wienerberg without a corresponding public transport connection or who the beneficiary of a residential district located above the busiest motorway in Austria is. The complex planning thriller leads to the all-important question of "Who builds Vienna?" and at the same time paints a moral picture of political and democratic culture that applies not only to the metropolis on the Danube.