Changing the mould: The Frauen-Werk-Stadt model project. Rose Gilroy, Chris Booth

This text discusses in detail the Viennese the Frauen-Werk-Stadt model housing project which provides an example of planning and design based on the principles of everyday life. The article examines the process by which women successfully began to influence traditional approaches to the planning and design of a new social housing project in the suburbs of Vienna. Women architects and planners, together with grassroots women in Vienna first mobilised around city planning and women. As a consequence, they seized the opportunity to create a new template for the design of neighbourhoods — drawing particularly on feminist thinking about home environments.