01354nmm a22002537a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20230320122023.0 221102| ||||go||d|||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN Sailer, Gregor ‎ photographer. The Potemkin Village urbanNext, December 13, 2019. 11 slides. 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. Architecture Photos Traced-village https://urbannext.net/the-potemkin-village/ Access to info ddc CF 0 2456 2456 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2023-03-20 0 2023-03-20 2023-03-20 CF