 The streets and squares of the settlement were named for engineers, physicists and inventors whose performance contributed to the success of Siemens AG.The shape of the settlement marked a turning point in urban thinking, the point at which Berlin's city planner Martin Wagner abandoned a low-rise, garden city-style project with individual gardens, in favor of much denser multi-story apartment blocks.Distributed within the whole settlement are information columns that give short, concise information on the architects and his buildings (currently in German language only).