Due to the high level of state support for the construction activity during the wartime and the fixation of the experience gained into norms and laws, the Staaken Garden City became in the first half of the 1920s generally the model in publicly subsidized social housing construction. Contemporaries still understood the relation to old models. Thus Fritz Stahl saw in 1917 the "certain mobility and warmth [...] achieved, as the old natural settlements of the country possess, but not by the artificial means of imitating their effects, but only by the artistic elaboration of the from necessity derived forms."Fritz Stahl: Die Gartenstadt Staaken. Berlin n.d. P. 10–11. It was not until 1979 that Julius Posener came to the verdict: "The illusion of the medieval small town is completely successful." In addition, he spoke in this context of "tiny little dollhouse cottages."Julius Posener: Berlin auf dem Wege zu einer neuen Architektur; das Zeitalter Wilhelms II. München 1979. P. 280.
