Are tenement blocks part of the worlds cultural heritage?
Instead of only unique cultural and natural treasures being honoured with a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list, “the list has grown uncontrollably to encompass 851 entries from 141 countries,” the newspaper criticises. It contends that the reason for the surplus are applications like that submitted by the city of Berlin requesting that social housing estates dating back to the 1920s be added to the World Heritage list. “The large housing estate concept of the 1920s is part of Europe’s common heritage – and therefore found its expression in different developments, such as Amsterdam’s cosy clinker brick buildings, the majestic workers’ palaces of ‘red Vienna’ or the collectivist experimental cities of the young Soviet Union. A typical feature of the modern age is that its guiding principles claim to have universal importance. … The modern age doesn’t perceive itself as a virtuoso of architecture but as a socio-political movement, as a pilot experiment for dignified human existence
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