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By the 1920s, across the city, new visions of living and working were springing up. Berlin had become a cauldron of creativity. On its edges, pioneering architects were commissioned to come up with new homes to take the masses out of the overcrowded city. The Hufeisensiedlung, or Horseshoe Estate, designed by Bruno Taut, had more than 1,000 residences. Onkel Toms Siedlung, built five years later, would accommodate twice as many again. These estates were like garden cities, boldly colourful, the fruits of a society that celebrated the new.