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59. Rimpl explains (ibid., 149): “The architectonic Gestalt leads from the green
outer areas in the form of settlers' houses, and the single-storey row houses and
detached homes through the two-storey apartment areas to the closely adjacent city
center whose dominating structures give the general impression that the city was
designed by an overpowering Will.” It has been remarked that the overall organiza-
tion of Salzgitter represented the hierarchical organization of the Nazi party,
reminding the people graphically of the precedence of the social and political order
(Nerdinger, 67).
60. Scott,
Seeing Like a State,
89.
