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The City and Land of Music
Vienna made music ... and music made Vienna. As told by “Metropole” writers – a libretto for life in the Austrian capital. With an overture by our Editor in Chief Dardis McNamee.
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The Secrets of a City That Works
Vienna continues to grow, blending into the new millennium while keeping its Old World charm. The how and the why.
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Profits, Politics, Patronage
More revenues, more products and more gambling addicts. With the state reaping both taxes and profits, laws mostly protect operators, not consumers.
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Austrian Business Knows No Bounds
Engines in India, cable cars in La Paz, logistics on the Silk Road – Austrian technology and exports are at an all-time high.
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The Power of Culture
How Austrians know who they areOn November 18, the afternoon temperature suddenly dropped to an icy chill and the first flakes of snow b...
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Viennese Humor | Tour de Schmäh
Forget Sissi, Schönbrunn and Apfelstrudel: According to the Viennese, their humor is the city’s most remarkable accomplishment.
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Cover Story | Hidden Giants
Austria may sometimes appear frozen in time. But below the surface, its people power one of the most vibrant globalized economies in the world
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The Sociable City
Conversations with Viennese architects reveal the secrets to creating a liveable city.“Everything is Architecture,” wrote the Pritzker prize-win...
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Animals Are Our Best Ingredients | Can You Love Puppy Dogs AND Pork Cutlets?
The Viennese love their pets under and their meaty schnitzel on the table. A report on the animals we cuddle and those we devourAn elderly lady ...
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Up & Down the Danube | From the Black Forest to the Black Sea
The mighty river is the lifeblood of the entire southeastern flank of Europe. Cultures flourish, empires fall and ideologies shatter on its shores.
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The Closer the Better | Austrian Chefs Go Local
Austrian restaurants are proud to cook with local fare. It’s all about knowing your suppliers and helping your customers understand the differ...
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Bringing Life to Our Streets | The Tramway’s Enduring Appeal
With the Straßenbahn in their DNA, the Viennese are abandoning their cars for public transport and looking forward to robot chauffeurs.
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The Birth of Modernism | 100 Years of Artistic Excellence and Revolution
On this centennial of the deaths of four Viennese masters, the city looks back on the birth of modernism and a vision of the “total work of art,” an e...
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Austrian Democracy | The Consensus Machine
From Proporz to Verhaberung, participation and influence in Austria go far beyond the walls of Parliament to find an "Austrian solution".
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The Nostalgia Trap: How There has Never Been Just one ‘old Vienna’
In every age, the pressures of change in Vienna have stirred a longing for better times gone by, often more imagined than real, but nonetheless ...
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Siblings Reunited: How Open Borders are Reconnecting the Central Europe Family
Austria shares a rich history and culture with its Central European brothers and sisters. Now that borders have disappeared, the region is once ...
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The Good Life is as Easy to Define as Love or Justice
Why Vienna tops the rankings of the world’s most livable cities is about attitude as much as anythingFor the mild-mannered “Zettlpoet” H...
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The Turbulent Times of Viennese Design
In Vienna, with so much arts and culture, design may seem like an afterthought. In fact, it's all around us, shaping how we live, eat and dressT...
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Unlikely Wanderlust and the Austrian Appetite for Adventure
Exploring the Austrians’ love for travelingIn early 2009, five months pregnant, I listened in astonishment as my Austrian guy announced he neede...
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At The End of the Rainbow
The LGBT scene has experienced a surge of acceptance in Austria, but it took a while to get here and equality is not yet a reality.
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Austria’s Obsession with Extreme Sports and how it Changes us
How Austria's taming the rush of death-defying adrenaline highs condition us to be more resilient.In just one tenth of a second your brain goes ...
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In Sickness and in Health | How Viable is Austria’s Health Care System?
The Austrian health care system covers you regardless of your wallet size or passport. But cracks are showing in this jewel of the welfare state.
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Living and Working in Austria
Austrians appreciate a fair day’s work if it doesn’t interfere too much with their private lives. But as the economic heart of Central Europe, the cou...
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Capital of Cloak & Dagger
Vienna has never tried to curb the activities of foreign spies. Over the past century, it’s become the go-to stage for the dramas of global espionage
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What Money Can’t buy
Luxury retail is the lifeblood of the city center, but can Vienna manage to sustain its tradition of local craftsmanship with the demands of internati...
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Death in Vienna
Some Viennese may play down any special relationship with death. But, then again, it’s probably better not to take any chances...
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Beautiful Minds
If our education decides our future, what happens to upward mobility and equal opportunity?A democracy depends on citizens knowing what they are v...
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Smart City Vienna
From San Diego to Copenhagen, from Vienna to Singapore, everybody wants to become a smart city. But how do you upgrade the world's most livable city?
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Cover Story: Reimagining The Self
Vienna’s dramatists have a long, brilliant and turbulent history. But no year was quite so momentous as 1929, the year modernity was born.Hedwig K...
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The Green Republic
No other country believes itself to be so in touch with nature. Is Austria living a lie?
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Cover Story: A Culture of Innovation
Austria often looks to America’s can-do approach to business, but can it foster its own forward-leaning climate while still preserving its heritage?...
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Cover Story: Growing Global – Third-Culture Kids
For third-culture kids, international schools around the world become an important but temporary extended familyYou can hear them on the subway,...
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Cover Story: Banking on the Long Run
What Austria’s turbulent past tells us about the current economic and financial crisisIn 2012, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s lowered ...
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Cover Story: The Collaborative Economy Sharing Game
From cars to office space, and even livestock, the Collaborative Economy is changing more than how we use things. It’s reinventing how we value proper...
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Cover Story: Private Lives
From the internet to the bedroom, Austrians care about – and protect – the personal sphere. It’s a cultural thing.On a cold, grey day in January...
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Cover Story: For the Sake of Art
Does culture still matter in a world where big money often defines value?On a Monday evening in mid-November, the narrow street in front of the ...
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Cover Story: The Sharing Game
From cars to office space, and even livestock, the Collaborative Economy is changing more than how we use things. It’s reinventing how we value proper...
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The Many-Peopled Land
Can Vienna be enriched by the flood of migrants coming to Europe? History suggests that it will.Suddenly, Vienna has become the point city of th...
