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all take place here. This hierarchical structure with its centralizing tendency is com-

bined with distinct zoning. Without it being explicitly stated in principle at that time

(the Charter of Athens was only drawn up in 1933), the construction of the Siedlun-

gencreated a de facto functional segregation. The Siedlungen, after all, consisted pri-

marily of housing.^69 Consequently, a clear trend emerged of creating a geographical

separation between housing (in the Siedlungen), work (in the industrial terrains on

the banks of the Main), trade, culture, and education (in the city center), and an in-

frastructure of roads and railways that forms an essential connecting element.^70

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Hellerhof, plan of the houses

from 1901.

Plan and facades of the blocks

designed by Mart Stam.