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Prague Walks with a purpose I: the Baba Housing Estate

The Baba housing estate encompasses 33 buildings built in early 1930s. It is one of six projects of this kind in Central Europe, but Prague’s project was different: the investor had bought the land and approached selected architects and selected clients from Prague’s cultural and financial elites, so that each building was built specifically for a particular client, and usually the villa bears the client’s name. We will not get into details about each house’s architect, purpose or client - this website will does a fantastic job we don’t feel compelled to try to replicate and fail.

What we want to focus instead is two things:

  • real estate market prices in Prague.

  • the lack of continuity of wealth in the Czech Republic due to its Communist past.

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