Austrian Association for Settlements and Small Gardens

The Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association ({{langx|de|Österreichischer Verband für Siedlungs- und Kleingartenwesen}}, OVSK) was an organisation established following the First World War to support people in need of housing and the allotment movement principally in and around Vienna.{{cite book |last1=Vossoughian |first1=Nader |title=Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis |date=2008 |publisher=NAi |location=The Hague |isbn=978-90-5662-350-0 }}

The organisation was founded by {{lang|de|Otto Neurath|italic=no}} in 1921.{{cite book |last=Burke |first=C. |year=2013 |chapter=The Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien [Social and economic museum of Vienna] 1925–1934 |editor1-last=Burke |editor1-first=C. |editor2-last=Kindel |editor2-first=E. |editor3-last=Walker |editor3-first=S. |title=Isotype: Design and contexts 1925–1971 |location=London |publisher=Hyphen Press }}

OVSK was the basis for the {{lang|de|Museum für Siedlung und Städtebau}} ('Museum for Settlement and Town Planning'). {{lang|de|Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky|italic=no}} described her experiences working for the OVSK in her book {{lang|de|Warum ich Architektin wurde|italic=yes}} (Why I Became an Architect).

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