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 nineteenth-century model worker’s village. It is certainly the most interesting example in Italy of the phenomenon of workers' villages.
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Ferrara
Ferrara is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River.
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Le Havre
As a result of numerous air-raids during World War Two, the port of Le Havre lost its administrative and cultural center as well as much of its housing in the center of the city.
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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
Morelia is the capital of the Mexican state of Michoacán de Ocampo. The city's historic downtown area houses many beautiful colonial buildings and churches.
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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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Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) at Arc-et-Senans, in the forest of Chaux near Besançon, France is notable as an early Enlightenment architectural project to rationalize industrial buildings and processes according to a philosophical order.
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Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian era model village in West Yorkshire, England.
Saltaire was founded by Sir Titus Salt in 1853.
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna was founded between 1496 and 1497 by Alonso Fernández de Lugo and was the capital of the island after the conclusion of the conquest of the islands.
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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 Noto Valley, located in south-eastern Sicily, owes its place on the World Heritage List to a tragic event in its history.
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White City of Tel-Aviv
The White City is the name given to Tel Aviv because of the large number of white, or light-colored buildings built there between the 1920s and the 1950s in the Bauhaus or International style.
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