Based on a Polanyi-inspired research program, we analyze urban transformations as interrelations between infrastructural configurations, i.e. contextdependent material infrastructures and their multi-scalar political-economic regulations, and socio-cultural modes of living. Describing different modes of infrastructure provisioning in Vienna between 1890 and today, we illustrate how political-economic processes of commodification and decommodification have co-evolved with socio-culturally specific modes of living, grounded in different classes and milieus. We show how, today, two modes of living-"traditional," established during postwar welfare capitalism, and "liberal," formed during neoliberal capitalism-co-exist. In the current conjuncture of rising inequality, neoliberal urban regeneration, and accelerating climate crisis, these modes of living are not only increasingly polarized and antagonistic, but also increasingly unable to satisfy needs and self-defined aspirations. Therefore, we explore the potential of social-ecological infrastructural configurations as an alliancebuilding project for a systemic social-ecological transformation, potentially linking different classes, social segments and forces around a common eco-social endeavor.

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Richard Bärnthaler, Andreas Novy und Basil Stadelmann analysieren in diesem Beitrag, basierend auf einem interdisziplinären Forschungsprogramm, städtische Transformationsprozesse als Wechselbeziehung zwischen Infrastrukturkonfigurationen (d.h. kontext-spezifischen materiellen Infrastrukturen und ihren multiskalaren politökonomischen Regelwerken) sowie dominanten soziokulturellen Lebensweisen. Anhand des Beispiels Wien unterscheiden wir vier Phasen dieser historisch-spezifischen Wechselbeziehungen: das Christlich-Soziale Wien vor 1918, das Rote Wien zwischen 1919-1934, das Wohlfahrtskapitalistische Wien nach 1945 und ein Wien des umkämpften Neoliberalismus seit den 1980er Jahren. Abschließend erfolgt ein Ausblick für inter- und transdisziplinäre Stadtforschung.