The Potemkin Village

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Sailer, Gregor ‎ [photographer.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, December 13, 2019.Description: 11 slidesISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: The concept of the “Potemkin Village” can be traced back to Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, a Russian field marshal and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. Anxious to spare her the grim face of the recently annexed Crimea when she toured it in 1787, he allegedly ordered to create entire “villages” consisting of nothing more than gaily painted façades to be erected all along her route.

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Architectural objects (5) ,
USA (225) ,
Sweden (22) ,
Survey (228) ,
Russia (15) ,
Political & Economic Approach (179) ,
Germany (54) ,
France (107) ,
Architectural paradox (3) ,
Urban village (9)

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Gregor Sailer, Low Density, Politics and economics, Survey, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architectural objects, Architectural paradox, France, Germany, Political & Economic Approach, Russia, Survey, Sweden, Urban village, USA

Excerpt from The Potemkin Village, published by Kehrer Verlag

The concept of the “Potemkin Village” can be traced back to Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, a Russian field marshal and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. Anxious to spare her the grim face of the recently annexed Crimea when she toured it in 1787, he allegedly ordered to create entire “villages” consisting of nothing more than gaily painted façades to be erected all along her route.

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