What Can We Learn from Vienna for Tackling the 21st Century Housing Question? 🏘️
Dr Justin Kadi, Associate Professor in Planning and Housing at the University of Cambridge, delivers a free lecture examining the celebrated “Vienna model” of housing. Amidst deepening housing crises in cities worldwide, he asks what characterizes the model, how Vienna’s system differs from other Western cities, and what challenges it faces today — from commodification and financialisation to the pressures reshaping urban housing.
What to expect:
🏘️ Inside the “Vienna model” — How one of Europe’s most regulated and successful housing systems came into being, and what sets it apart from housing systems elsewhere in the West
📊 A decade of housing research — Insights drawn from ten years of research projects on the reconfiguration of 21st-century housing systems from the vantage point of a highly regulated context
🗣️ An unmissable live lecture — Hosted by Oxford’s Sustainable Urban Development programme as part of Urban October, with Q&A — and this lecture will not be recorded, so this is your only chance to take part in person