From Mr. Paradeiser's red nose, Mr. Jian's Tai-Chi Institute, the janitor with the Coca-Cola room, and architect Brenner's living machine, right in the heart of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus: In Christoph Mandl's book on municipal housing, you encounter characters, phenomena, and nearly unknown places surrounding the communal housing of "Red Vienna." The municipal housing still represents one of the great political wonders that this city produced and which - altered and softened - remain effective to this day. The book tells the story of the thousand-hour houses that were handed over to poor apartment seekers, who were required to contribute a thousand hours of labor as their own input, as well as the community kitchens, the workers' theater, and institutions like the Workers' Radio Association of Austria that were housed in the municipal buildings. It has become both a reading and a fact book that narrates this history.