Apartment blocks, Nuuk, Greenland

Apartment blocks, Nuuk, Greenland. These building was built and erected in as part of the Danish parliament's, Folketinget, programme to modernize and urbanize the Greenlandic infrastructure by moving people away from the coastal settlements which were deemed "unprofitable, unhealthy and unmodern". The same could be said for these 'new' buildings.

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Apartment blocks, Nuuk, Greenland. These building was built and erected in as part of the Danish parliament's, Folketinget, programme to modernize and urbanize the Greenlandic infrastructure by moving people away from the coastal settlements which were deemed "unprofitable, unhealthy and unmodern". The same could be said for these 'new' buildings.