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    preferred new construction over repairing the damaged housing stock. Plattenbau suburbs were planned not only for apartment buildings, but included schools...
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    and Sídlisko (Czech Republic and Slovakia) Large panel system building (Plattenbau, Germany) Panelház (Hungary) Million Programme (Sweden) Ugsarmal bair...
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    German authorities viewed large cost advantages in the construction of Plattenbau apartment blocks such that the building of such architecture on the edge...
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    Ostel is a hostel in Berlin. Located in an original Plattenbau, it is decorated in the style of Ostalgie. Sometime in 2020, it has closed down. It was...
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    A high-rise Plattenbau in Jena, Germany....
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    singer and guitarist Dag-Alexis Kopplin. The duo is signed to the Berliner Plattenbau label. The band was founded in 1999 in Berlin-Spandau as Stonedeafproduction...
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    (Finally war again) (with grim104 as Zugezogen Maskulin) 2015: Plattenbau O.S.T. (Plattenbau O.S.T.) (with Ada Steinberg as Zugezogen Maskulin) Videos 2011:...
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    built in the same style. Some 90,000 apartments in Leipzig were built in Plattenbau buildings during Communist rule in East Germany. and although some of...
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    Gomułka. Prefabrication was seen as a way to construct tower blocks or plattenbau in an efficient and orderly manner. A great influence on this type of...
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    construction of high-rise prefabricated apartment blocks (similar to German Plattenbaus). In 1976, in line with the city's 1926 renaming, a large monumental...
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  • needed] or "wielka płyta" (the great panel). In Germany they are known as Plattenbau. Most buildings in Soviet-era Microdistricts are panel buildings.[citation...
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    differently in various countries. Large Panel System building known as Plattenbau in German, Panelák in Czech and Slovak, wielka płyta in Polish and Panelház...
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    and Gorbitz-Sud. Gorbitz is the largest Plattenbau area of Dresden, but still smaller than large Plattenbau-settlements like Grunau quarter in Leipzig...
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    refers specifically to buildings in Mongolia. However, similar buildings (Plattenbau) were built in other Communist countries and some Western countries. Eastern...
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    the government fought against the housing shortage by building large Plattenbau settlements in the periphery. The Peaceful Revolution of 1989/1990 led...
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    1964, a concrete plant was opened which produced the precast concrete (Plattenbau) for the new city. On 15 July 1964, Horst Sindermann, First Secretary...
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    During the following decades, the city doubled its population, many Plattenbau settlements developed at the periphery and the centre got largely converted...
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  • "Plattenbau" housing complex built in the 1970s in the southern end of Langwasser...
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    East German reconstruction included large low-rise (and later high-rise Plattenbau) housing. Some tourist sites were reconstructed during the East German...
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    During this period, some historic inner-city quarters were replaced by Plattenbau buildings, especially west of the Hauptmarkt and at Gartenstraße north...
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    underway at the time of German reunification in 1990, when the East German Plattenbau-based construction was stopped and subsequently demolished; only a few...
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    Republic of Hungary and other Eastern Bloc countries. They are also known as Plattenbau in German, Panelák in Czech and Slovak, Blok in Polish. It was the main...
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    projects were erected in Warsaw to address the major housing shortage. Plattenbau-styled apartment buildings were seen as a solution to avoid Warsaw's former...
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    (Everything burns) 2014: Endlich wieder Krieg (Finally war again) 2015: Plattenbau O.S.T 2016: Ratatat im Bataclan 2017: Was für eine Zeit 2017: Uwe & Heiko...
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    to the Berlin Wall in 1961 (when the barrier was being constructed), a Plattenbau apartment block, together with a kindergarten, was built on the eastern...
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    East German authorities. The construction, carried out in the typical plattenbau prefabricated-building style, dragged on until the late 1980s. In the...
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    cities in the 2010s. Penthouse: the top floor of multistory building Plattenbau (East German) / Panelák (Czech, Slovak): a communist-era tower block that...
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  • National Housing Act (Canada) HLM (France) Million Programme (Sweden) Plattenbau (Germany) Panelház (Hungary) Panelák and Sídlisko (Czech Republic and...
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    German government had large pre-fabricated high-rise housing estates (Plattenbau) built in the east of the Lichtenberg borough. This area was separated...
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    needed] In East Germany, the communist administration built monolithic Plattenbau apartment blocks and estates. Most new residential buildings from the...
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