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Saltaire
Saltaire in West Yorkshire is a well-preserved industrial village from the second half of the 19th century. The architectural style of the textile factories, public buildings and workers' housing is harmonious and unified, the construction standards are high, and the urban planning is well preserved, leaving a vivid impression of the philanthropic paternalism of the Victorian era.
New Lanark
New Lanark is an 18th-century village in beautiful Scotland where philanthropist and utopian idealist Robert Owen created a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The magnificent cotton mill buildings, spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and stately educational institutions and schools still bear witness to Owen's humanism.
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
The site is a striking landscape, the product of three centuries of coal mining from the 18th to the 20th century, and consists of 109 separate parts covering 120,000 hectares. The site features mining pits (the oldest of which date back to 1850) and lift infrastructure, slag heaps (some covering 90 hectares and reaching heights of over 140 metres), coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers’ estates and mining villages, including social settlements, schools, religious buildings, health and community facilities, company premises, houses for owners and managers, a town hall, etc. The site bears witness to the quest to create a model workers’ city from the mid-19th century to the 1960s, and further illustrates an important period in the history of European industrialisation. It documents the living conditions of workers and the worker solidarity it aroused.