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19世紀末の四半世紀にかけて、大ブダペストの人口はほぼ3倍に増加し、100万人近くに達しました。商業不動産の開発は（非常に速いペースで進んだとはいえ）宿泊施設の需要に追いつかず、その結果、政府が介入して公務員向けの住宅プロジェクトに資金を提供する必要が生じました。

商業開発業者は、ブダペストの新たな住民のために、狭い通りに密集した高層アパートを建設した。これらの人々のほとんどは村や小さな町から来ており、緑や新鮮な空気のない、大きくて混雑した都市では居心地が悪かった。当時人気のあった建築家ヨージェフ・フライシュルは、エベネザー・ハワードの田園都市運動の考え方に似た、計画的な住宅団地の建設を提案した。

当時ハンガリー首相だったシャーンドル・ヴェケルレ政権はこれらの計画を支持し、住宅団地建設のための入札を募った。当時活躍していた多くの建築家が、1階建てまたは2階建ての住宅、2世帯住宅から12戸の集合住宅まで、様々な「構想案」を提出した。すべての設計は、カーロイ・コーシュが確立した「トランシルヴァニア様式」に倣い、高い屋根と木造構造（階段など）をふんだんに用いたものだった。どの住宅にも広々とした庭が設けられ、街路は快適な並木道となるよう計画されていた。

Construction began in 1908, and until 1925 when the Great Depression forced to abandon further development, 1007 houses were built containing 4412 apartments. One-story buildings placed along smaller streets had 2,3 or 4 individual apartments, and two-storey 6,8, and 12-apartment houses lined wider streets, forming a unique "spider web" street layout, centered on a round square with a large park in the middle.

Between 1911 and 1914 four schools and two kindergartens were completed with 48 classrooms, 18 kindergarten rooms and 2 gymnasiums. The police headquarters and barracks for mounted police were finished in 1912.

Priority was given to government employees among rent applicants, but the estate, being very popular from the beginning already had 25% of its population from the privately employed, mostly workers of nearby factories.

According to the government's concept (most of the renters would be young, often unmarried clerks and low-level government officials), the majority of the houses include small apartments. The most common arrangement is the 45 m² two-room apartment in 12-apartment complexes. 3-room 59 m² apartments are also common. Larger units are rare, there are a few larger apartments in the 2-storey buildings on the central square. There's a handful of distinct, almost villa-like housings with larger apartments, referred popularly as "headmaster's house" or "doctor's apartment", the name probably stemming from their originally intended function.

The main, central square was very important for the concept of "building for the community", thus planning of the main square was a separate project, won by Károly Kós one of the star architects of the period. He designed the arrangement with the radial street layout and also one of the trademark wooden gates (the eastern one). Many of the famed architects of the era (e.g. Lajos Schodits, Béla Eberling, Dezső Zrumeczky, Gyula Wälder and Dénes Györgyi) designed houses on the square.

Fifty thousand trees were planted during the construction, mainly along the spacious avenues. The estate had its own gardening service, who not only took care of the many plants, flowers and trees of the community spaces, but also helped renters to groom their own gardens as well. Four fruit trees were planted for each apartment (altogether 16.000), and thanks to the favorable sandy soil and to the care of the new dwellers, various kinds of drupes bloomed. It was noted that in 1917 redcurrant harvest was so rich that renters could earn almost four times the yearly rent just by selling their fruits.