A quarter of Vienna's residents live in municipal housing built after 1919. Understanding Gemeindebau explains the courtyards, murals and city blocks you pass without a museum in sight.
Vienna's Ringstrasse looks like several centuries stitched together because it is. The 1857 decision to tear down the city walls explains why the boulevard reads the way it does.
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