[Public Seminar] Vienna, Smart City: Social Housing – Tradition and Future

Date/Time
Date(s): 09/10/2014
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
WLB104, Wing Lung Bank Building for Business, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong

Language: English

Admission: Free, please register below.

Event Partner(s): This event is organized in cooperation with City University of Hong Kong and the Consulate General of Austria.

Speaker(s):
- Dr. Stefan Krakhofer, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
- Prof. H. Werner Hess, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University/ EUAP

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Mr. Stefan Krakhofer

 Prof. H. Werner Hess

Event Description: Achieving urban innovation success is foremost a question of good city governance and its underlying ethical principles. About a third of Vienna’s population today lives in ‘social housing’, owned or subsidized by the City.

This introduction outlines Vienna’s historical tradition of building for the needs of its citizens, key features of housing policy and its changes over time. Social housing has become a key vehicle for urban democratization and is a major factor behind Vienna’s global ranking as the city with the top ‘Quality of Living’.

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