Abstract: Large estates of towers and slabs can be found all over the German capital, and the differences between those which before 1990 were situated on different sides of the Berlin Wall are often hard to tell for the layperson. They stand witness to the dream of modern living and acceptable housing conditions for the whole population, which in the decades after the Second World War inspired the socialist regime in the East in the same way as the welfare state in the West. In terms of political background and social significance, however, the Plattenb...
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Economic history
Economy