Human activity, Urban planning

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
The "Berlin Modernism Housing Estates" represent low income housing architecture from the early 20th century.
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Brasilia
Brasilia officially became Brazil´s capital on April, 1960. Four years before, it didn´t even exist. At that time, President Juscelino Kubitschek commisioned Lucio Costa (urban planner), Oscar Niemeyer (architect) and Burle Marx (landscape architect) to build a new city from scratch.
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Crespi d'Adda
Crespi d'Adda is a late 19th century model worker’s village. It is one of the best preserved examples of the phenomenon of "company towns", which were developed by enlightened industrialists in Europe and North America.
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Ferrara
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta are the first example of Italian Renaissance town planning and its influence on the landscape.
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Le Havre
Le Havre, the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret, is an outstanding post-war example of urban planning and architecture.
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Mantua and Sabbioneta
Mantua and Sabbioneta are towns in the Po Valley that represent aspects of Renaissance town planning.
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Morelia
The Historic Centre of Morelia contains 249 historic buildings, all made out of characteristic pink stone.
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New Lanark
New Lanark is a village founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.
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Pienza
The Historic Centre of the City of Pienza is the earliest example of a Renaissance "ideal town". It was created by Pope Pius II, who decided to refurbish his poor hometown of Corsignano and turn it into his papal summer court.
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Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian era model village that illustrates the philanthropic approach to industrial management typical of this period.
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San Cristobal de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna on Tenerife was the first non-fortified Spanish colonial town, and its layout provided the model for many colonial towns in the Americas.
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Shibam
The Old Walled City of Shibam is one of the earliest and most perfect examples of vertical construction.
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Val di Noto
The Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily) are eight towns are examples of ‘anti-seismic’ urban planning executed in the late Baroque style.
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White City of Tel-Aviv
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Movement, covers a part of the city that was developed in the 1930s as a result of innovative town planning adapted to local conditions.
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