"Dedicated to All Men for Recreation by Their Admirer": This inscription crowning the portal of the Augarten Park in Vienna has welcomed every visitor since the year 1775, when Emperor Joseph II (March 13th 1741, Vienna – February 20th 1790, Vienna) opened these imperial gardens and hunting grounds to the public. This act was only a detail of a huge political plan that links politics, urban planning and architecture – followings the ideas of the German Aufklärung (Enlightenment) – to change the relationship between the government and the people in order to modernize the Habsburg empire and improve the life of its people.