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Unesco: Switzerland: La Chaux De Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning

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The site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watchmaking town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Swiss Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to farming. Their planning and buildings...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

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Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century...
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Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement

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Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Grand Canyon Village

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Planned town significant for its urban planning and ecological sensitivity.
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Unesco: United Kingdom: Saltaire

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Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century. Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural...
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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Morelia

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Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which combines the ideas of the Spanish Renaissance with the Mesoamerican experience. Well-adapted to the slopes of the hill site, its streets still follow...
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Unesco: Netherlands: Seventeenth Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

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The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new 'port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic...
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Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...

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