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Those ambitious Weimar era housing estates in Berlin are all awesome, with their careful balance between efficiency and preventing excessive cookie-cutter.

It's interesting to contrast them with their less modernist "Gemeindebau" contemporaries in Vienna, which share some ideas and contrast in many others. In my opinion the Vienna ones deserve far more attention than they get (than they get outside Vienna?). I guess their biggest hindrance to fame is that there are so many of them, and that the biggest ones that unsurprisingly draw all the attention (e.g. the match made in heaven of Karl Marx Hof and George Washington Hof) aren't quite as interesting as their entirety, in particular the continuity through Anschluss, war and the aftermath.