Sailer, Gregor ‎ creator photographic. software, multimedia |d| urbanNext December 13, 2019 monographic eng

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11 slides. 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. 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 Architecture Photos Traced-village 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/the-potemkin-village/ https://urbannext.net/the-potemkin-village/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20230320095202.0 eng