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Here we lived and worked. European Theme Route Housing & Architecture
The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during the Industrial Revolution opened up new and previously undreamt-of potentials for architects and engineers. At the same time industrialisation caused a revolution in the construction of housing as a result of the grave deficit in decent housing caused by the thousands of workers who migrated to booming factory regions. One of the first entrepreneurs to concern himself with social questions was the early British socialist, Robert Owen. At the end of the 18th century he conceived an ideal town for his workers in the utopian tradition of the Renaissance.
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Crespi d’Adda | Crespi d’Adda |
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piazzale Vittorio Veneto 1 | 24042 Crespi d’Adda | Italy |
| Crespi d’Adda is a community where textiles were manufactured in a mill completed in 1878, but it is important chiefly as a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had ... more >> |
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Cynonville | South Wales Miners Museum |
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Afan Forest Park | SA13 3HG Cynonville | Great Britain |
| Set in a country park the museum is run by a committed group of ex-miners. Main features include a traditional miners cottage scene, historic photographs illustrating the miners way of life, the poign... more >> |
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Delmenhorst | Nordwolle |
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Am Turbinenhaus 10-12 | 27749 Delmenhorst | Germany |
| Twelve hours work in suffocating factory rooms followed by a meagre dinner in a house belonging to the company, and maybe a chat over the garden fence with the neighbour before going to bed. This was ... more >> |
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Dereham, Norfolk | Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse |
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Gressenhall | NR20 4DR Dereham, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| The vast ´House of Industry´ at Gressenhall was built in 1775 to provide a home and work to the rural poor who were otherwise unable to obtain work. In 1834, it became known as the Mitford and Laund... more >> |
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Dessau-Roßlau | The steel house | Törten housing estate |
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Südstraße 5 | 06849 Dessau-Roßlau | Germany |
| Along with other architects of the "New Building" group, Walter Gropius, the director of the Bauhaus Dessau Design Academy, was a leading figure in the building of housing estates in the 1920s. After ... more >> |
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Dodford | Rosedene |
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Victoria Road | B61 9BU Dodford | Great Britain |
| The Chartist Movement in Britain in the 1830s and 40s was on the surface a working class agitation for political reform. Three widely-signed petitions were presented to parliament in 1839, 1842 and 18... more >> |
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Dortmund | LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery |
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Grubenweg 5 | 44388 Dortmund | Germany |
| Angle towers and gables with battlements, artistically ornate staircases, an imposing boulevard of lime and plane trees against the background of a palatial redbrick façade! Was this once supposed to... more >> |
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Dresden | Railway station |
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Wiener Platz 4 | Dresden | Germany |
| The principal railway station in the onetime capital city of Saxony is a building of profound significance in European history. The hauptbahnhof was constructed in 1892-98 to the design of the archite... more >> |
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Dresden | Yenidze Cigarette Factory |
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Weißeritzstr. 3 | 01067 Dresden | Germany |
| On one of his journeys to the Orient, the factory owner Hugo Zietz had an amazing brainwave! Why not build a cigarette factory in the style of a mosque as a contrast to the predominantly baroque build... more >> |
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East Tilbury, Essex | Bata Factory and Estate |
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Princess Avenue | RM18 8ST East Tilbury, Essex | Great Britain |
| East Tilbury is one of the most important planned landscapes in the East of England. It was built by the Czech Tomas Bata to provide both work and housing in a garden village setting. The Bata Museum ... more >> |
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Eisenhüttenstadt | Documentation Centre of Everyday Life in the GDR |
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Erich Weinert Allee 3 | 15890 Eisenhüttenstadt | Germany |
| Eisenhüttenstadt is a new town of the mid-20th century, an expression of the belief of Communist economists in the primacy of heavy industry. It stands on the River Oder, close to the point where it ... more >> |
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Essen | World Heritage Site Zollverein |
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Gelsenkirchener Str. 181 | 45309 Essen | Germany |
| Zollverein is the meeting place for past, present and future. The past is the "path of coal". Zollverein was once the largest coal mine in Europe, the central point in the lives of 5,000 colliers and ... more >> |
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Essen | Villa Hügel |
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Hügel 1 | 45133 Essen | Germany |
| A family house: this sober description in the local land register hardly does justice to a royal palace containing 269 rooms and covering 8,100 square metres of living and working space, surrounded by... more >> |
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Falkirk | The Falkirk Wheel |
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Lime Road | FK1 4RS Falkirk | Great Britain |
| The Falkirk Wheel is the most spectacular work of engineering so far constructed during the restoration of the inland waterways network in Britain which began in the 1960s. It connects two canals buil... more >> |
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Frankfurt | Peter Behrens Building |
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Industrie Park HoechstBrüningstraße 45 | 65929 Frankfurt | Germany |
| The city of Frankfurt has a long tradition of pharmacy, and amongst those trained there was Henri Nestle, the pioneer of the food industry. That tradition was the basis for the growth of the chemical ... more >> |
