How green do we want our housing to be? What are the essential criteria of a successful planning of open space in residential architecture? Will the changed relationship between city and country contribute to that, perhaps in the form of urban agriculture? “They say that life is full of contradictions, full of desires and decisions, full of eithers, full of ors. But wouldn’t it be much nicer not to have to decide, but to bring together opposites, to fulfil more than one dream and simply to enjoy more? (…) Why do they say EITHER OR and not simply AND? (…) Career AND family. Work AND pleasure. City AND countryside. Is that really so hard? And is it too much to want more? In any case, we want one thing: a good life! A life in which there is room for many differ-ent things. And a place in which we can find one thing: a full life!” Die Seestadt Wiens. Das ganze Leben, 2008.
