ABSTRACT
The displacements and shifts in the rental population resulting from physical improvement caused by a mainly market-driven urban renewal is currently an issue of intense discussion. Where as today the protection of urban heritage reconstruction is critically discussed, the alliance of artists and preservationists in the Spittelberg neighborhood were contributing to the aesthetic re-evaluation of the common, ordinary architecture of everyday life. In the course of history, different concepts of urban renewal were developed in order to adapt cities to new economic, cultural, and political circumstances. When comparing the different urban renewal concepts in post-World War II cities in the north-east and Midwest of the United States with those in Vienna. The Grunderzeit architecture was little appreciated in the 1970s, not least because of its history. By the end of the nineteenth century, the outer districts had become the new residential districts for immigrants coming mainly from the eastern region of the Danube Monarchy.
