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Why Vienna stops paving its streets

In a quiet revolt against the asphalt monoculture, Vienna is rolling out unsealed lanes, planted curbs and rain-fed gardens. The Stadt Wien is not waiting for federal climate-adaptation money, it is rewriting its own …

Tobias Hager·8 min·Vienna