Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Almost complete is the controversial Europa Quarter in Frankfurt. At its heart is a boulevard so poorly designed, that locals have started calling it Stalin Avenue and one musician wrote an entire song complaining about it.

Here's the song (in German):
youtube.com/watch?v=sJd47St7SVk

Chapters:
00:00 An average tourist in Frankfurt
00:30 Goods Square
01:28 A soulless redevelopment?
02:15 A road too wide
03:15 There is one advantage
03:37 Ghosts and dictators
04:38 Affordable homes deficit
05:18 Windy park
05:56 Maybe not the worst, but...

Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

Map of modern Frankfurt created using data from OpenStreetMap
openstreetmap.org

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