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Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
The system of Via Nuovo and Rolli Palaces in the historic centre of Genoa dates back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when the Republic of Genoa was at the peak of its financial and seafaring power. The site is the first urban development in Europe allocated by public authorities within a unified framework and linked to a specific system of “public accommodation” in private houses, as decreed by the Senate in 1576. The site includes a group of Renaissance and Baroque palaces along the so-called “Via Nuovo” (New Street). The Rolli Palaces offer a variety of different solutions, of universal value in terms of their adaptation to the particular characteristics of the site and the requirements of a specific social and economic organization. They also offer an example of an original network of public-private houses used to host state visits.
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
The La Chaux-de-Fonds/Le Locle watchmaking town planning site consists of two towns located next to each other in a remote area of the Swiss Jura Mountains, with land unsuitable for farming. Their planning and architecture reflect the watchmakers’ need for rational organization. The towns were planned in the early 19th century, after extensive fires, and owe their existence to this single industry. Their layout follows an open plan of parallel strips, with a mixture of residences and workshops, reflecting the needs of the local watchmaking culture, which dates back to the 17th century and is still active today. The site is an outstanding example of a single-industry manufacturing town, well preserved and still active. The town planning of both towns accommodated the transition from manual production in a cottage industry to more centralized factory production in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Karl Marx described La Chaux-de-Fonds as a “huge factory town” in Capital and analyzed the division of labor in the watchmaking industry in the Jura region.
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
The four hydraulic boat lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are industrial monuments of the highest quality. Together with the canal itself and its associated buildings, they form a typical example of a well-preserved late 19th-century industrial landscape. Of the eight hydraulic boat lifts built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the four on the Canal du Centre are the only ones in the world still in original working condition.