“I could never really get a feel for how destroyed Aleppo was,” Hans Hack told The Local, when explaining why he decided to superimpose the Syrian city onto Berlin. Click the map below to interact:Hack used a programme which selected the destroyed buildings randomly - every time he runs the programme it picks out different houses. Hack used, for example, east Berlin neighbourboods like Friedrichshain to depict how the east of Aleppo has been the most affected by bombing. The west Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, meanwhile, was used to demonstrate how the New Aleppo district has suffered no damage at all. “Charlottenburg has not been destroyed because that is where the Assad regime has been the whole time,” Hack explains.

Source: The Local April 24, 2017 15:00 UTC