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In a triangular area located in Lágymányos, bordered by Villányi Road, Bartók Béla Road (then Átlós Road) and Karolina Road, the construction of two estates consisting of detached houses was starte
What makes the Százados Road and the Kőbányai–Pongrác Road estates ‘twin colonies’?
The principles of Taylorism extended beyond the architectural concepts for the utilization of living spaces, affecting another aspect of the home.
Architect Károly Hegedős created a nine-volume memoir series, each volume spanning 700–900 pages, covering his life from childhood up to the time of writing in the 1950s.
Renowned author Zsigmond Móricz entered the literary world primarily as a writer focused on peasant life, serving as a literary sociographer of peasant society.
In 1932 the economic crisis reached its lowest point. Unemployment was rising and more and more people were left homeless.
Affordable housing for the majority of the lower classes and what was then known as the rent usury, provoked strong reactions from the public at the end of the first decade of the 1900s.
By the 1910s, the cholera barracks built by the municipality of Budapest in the last decades of the 19th century were completely ruined and in no way met the needs of the time.
At the end of the 1920s, the municipality of Budapest announced a campaign promising a thousand new emergency public housing units.
The abolition of the fixed property circulation introduced during World War I (i.e.