And to say that Sukhumi is blown up "a bit" risks flattering a town where only about one-third of the buildings are in good shape, one-third are badly run down, and one-third are derelict.
It was situated close to Munich on the site of a derelict first world war munitions factory and served as a model for later concentration camps, that were placed all over Europe.
These additions include a segment showing Newt's family first encountering the derelict spacecraft on LV-426, Ripley learning that her daughter died during the years she was in hypersleep, a scene in the operations building in which the Marines use sentry guns against the Aliens, and several extended dialogue scenes between Ripley and the Marines.
The projects are not the first to have transformed derelict spaces in the city.
My first visit to the derelict factory in Peckham used as office and studio (Peckham International Screen Studios, or Piss, as some of the crew called it).
Possibly the most important recommendation is to build on derelict land first, before building on green, and where possible retrofit buildings rather than building new.
Ferretti was on the lookout for an inland retreat when she first stumbled across the derelict Palazzo Viviani in the tiny walled town of Montegridolfo.
In the mid-2000s, he mustered Al Shabab's first forces at a derelict Mogadishu shampoo factory called Ifka Halane (which means "Clean and Shiny") and, soon after, he claimed to have turned his militia into the East African franchise for Al Qaeda.
The site on Hepscott Road, where petrol was first refined, still sits derelict, a shell of a building now used as a lorry depot on the edge of the Olympic park.
Where Tony left his academic colleagues in the shade was by applying that brilliant, fundamental research to the restoration of vegetation and functioning ecosystems to derelict land, first on mine sites in Wales and later in his adopted city of Liverpool and world-wide.
