See Weiße Stadt (White City), Berlin, Germany (UNESCO site)

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The White City is a typical residential area in the 1920s in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg the same district. In July 2008, the White City was as one of six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage included. The settlement with its characteristic white appearance was inspired by the style of New Objectivity. There was a sophisticated infrastructure with a thermal power station, two community laundry rooms, nursery, medical center , pharmacy and 24shops. To the settlement included a national youth movement and a school. Many infrastructural expansions were the Great Depression in the late 1920s to the victim, only since 1951, the White City was enlarged. Among the most striking buildings is the avenue through the Arosa-built "bridge building", one of Rudolf Otto Salvisberg designed five-story balcony house. Not least by this striking building, the White City is a synonym become for modern living in Charlottenburg: For old-Charlottenburg, which from modernized farms, industrial plants , apartment buildings is marked and the commercial center, residential street, offering the White City, a new emphasis of urban architecture.

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