Abstract (eng)
Processes of exclusion from public spaces are ubiquitous in Western cities. The mechanisms and
the explanation for the exclusions, however, are subjects to changes. The cause for the named
change is to be found in the transition from the Foucauldian disciplinary society into the control
society: Whereas in the disciplinary society the non-integrated were placed in docile bodies and
thereby have been adapted to the new economics, the control society prosecutes only their
exclusion. This social exclusion is as well enforced on the spatial level of cities. The question of
this thesis is: Which tools are applied to enforce exclusion from public spaces in Vienna and
whether selected public spaces differ from each other according to their potential of exclusion? At
the beginning of this thesis there is a discussion of the functions of public space for the city and its
inhabitants. The second part of this thesis deals specifically with those, affected by the exclusions
and the legal justification and tools of exclusion from public spaces in Vienna. The research
questions of this thesis will then be answered by a semi-structured observation.