Vienna, our favorite city! ❤️ A city with a rich history, beautiful architecture, and established traditions in art and science. A place that has always been ahead of its time, and which some of the greatest minds from various fields have called home - Mozart, Beethoven, Freud, Klimt, Schrödinger, and many others. 🧠🏡 Austria's capital, as you may know, has been ranked among the top 3 cities to live in worldwide 10 years in a row, which is quite an achievement. Therefore, in this episode, we dig deeper into the concept of what makes Vienna so livable and how such great quality of life is maintained. 🍀 Wait, how could you even measure the livability of a city? 🤔 More about the methodology of such rankings, the strengths, and weaknesses, as well as the usual STS twist on it, you hear in this episode. Shout out to Cyntha who sent us this topic, Sonia, a fellow STS scholar, and Viktoria Andreeva, an aspiring artist and photographer that you can check out on www.viktoriaandreeva.com or directly on her Insta profile _viktoria.andreeva 📸 And don't forget that… Vienna waits for you! 🎵  Stay up to date with the upcoming topics in the Science Slot Machine on our social media channels: 🤳🏽 Instagram @science_slotmachine Facebook @TheScienceSlotMachine Twitter @SciSlotMachine  🗓️ To avoid confusion, this episode has been recorded on November 27th, 2020. 🗓️ Last but not least: Let’s spin the science slot machine reels again and see which topic hits the jackpot! 🎰 Drop us your suggestions to scienceslotmachine@gmail Sources: Music -  www.bensound.com Capital of Democracy Project - https://capitalofdemocracy.eu/ Statistics: Bevölkerung nach Bezirken 2004 bis 2019 In welchen Bezirken die Spitzenverdiener wohnen | kurier.at Wiener Bevölkerung - Staatsbürgerschaft, Herkunft, Bezirke, Zuwanderung, Abwanderung, Wahlrecht Literature: Gieryn, T. F. (2006). City as Truth-Spot: Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies. Karvonen, A. (2020) Urban Techno-Politics: Knowing, Governing, and Imagining the City Miller, T. R (2020) Imaginaries of Sustainability: The Techno-Politics of Smart Cities Scott, J. (1998). Seeing Like a State: Winner, L. (1986). Do Artifacts Have Politics? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-science-slot-machine/message