Almost like mini-cities. Vienna is a remarkable city. It was premiered in the Classic film "The Third Man." It was also a divided city like Berlin. Early on a trailblazer building went up in the area of housing. It was created by an art-deco artist named Hundertwasser. [kunsthauswien.com]

The magic is in how it is implemented, not envisioned. Uncontrolled capitalism, uncontrolled socialism - both are bad. We have the Uncontrolled Capitalism problem. You can have great programs without uttering the word socialism. Articulating your message is very important in the modern world of communication. You use wrong words, and it will kill the message. We can have great health care, college education without saying the word. There is no way the word "socialism" will be acceptable to American people at large, no matter how many examples we give.

The last statement is key....and it applies to all countries and cities where there is a good quality of life and contented citizens...high taxation! To many of us that is an anathema and is the last thing we want...but only if we are willing to pay higher tax can this sort of beneficial housing development exist. The social and democratic models of governance need to be considered more and this example in Vienna would be a good place to start.

Entirely because of wall street profiteers who profit at the expense of anyone not rich

Thanks for posting the video about how a nation which values social government empowers everybody shown in the example of how it works in Vienna. I agree with you ... the powerful in America do create propaganda against social democracy or democratic socialism by getting gullible people to believe it will fail or that it's evil.

I believe there is a renewed awareness of social democracy which is growing. There is a video that explains both the growing awareness and the historical foundations which have preceded it. "This is a fairly good overview of what's happened both historically and currently in terms of social..."

Base word in latin; Social. Society. Such a horrible thing.

In the States it is generational and is tied to "communism" by too many folks. When enough Baby Boomers die it may change.

well this clip doesn't really tell you why you're brainedwashed to believe socialism is a dirty word but we do need to see examples of democratic socialism, unlike China or Russia, where people all live with dignity. Capitalists have done a good job at exploiting and manipulating their workers into believing that theirs is the only free system.
I'm Australian. We could do this here, but capitalism prevails and grows stronger every day.