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This is considered the first of its type although privately owned flats pre-date it:
Unité d'habitation (Cité Radieuse)
280 boulevard Michelet
13008 Marseille
France
Le Corbusier 1947-1952
The Marseille unité d'habitation brings together Le Corbusier's vision for communal living with the needs and realities of post-war France. Up to 1600 people live in a single-slab 'vertical village', complete with an internal shopping street halfway up, a recreation ground and children's' nursery on the roof, and a generous surrounding area of park land made possible by the density of the accommodation in the slab itself...
The lack of any expression of personal identity was taken up by Russia (and hence Eastern Europe) as an almost perfect expression of a de-personalised communist society. People living like worker ants in an anonymous anthill and subsequently either blown up, pulled down or converted to private ownership with a bit of individual glamour, glitz and quite a lot of bling.
There are no unité d'habitations under construction in Liverpool
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