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Bijlmermeer

‘Bijlmermeer: The City of Tomorrow’ was the 1960s slogan that expresses the faith in the...

Client: Gemeente Amsterdam

Designers: Siegfried Nassuth

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Pendrecht

Is it possible to propagate social solidarity by means of an urban design? After 1945,...

Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema

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Tapijtmetropool; Stedenbouwkundige Studie voor de Omgeving van Den Haag

Veel mensen zien een stad zoals deze op een kaart is aangegeven: een rode stip...

Client: Gemeente Den Haag, Dienst Stadsontwikkeling en Grondzaken

Designers: Willem Jan Neutelings

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Amsterdam-South Extension Plan

He looks at his future city like a creator. This light pencil drawing indicates a...

Designers: Hendricus Peter Berlage

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Chaos and Order / Expansion Plan for Amsterdam

Wijdeveld made a name for himself with fanciful and visionary designs for the city. This...

Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld

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Expansion Plan The Hague / Gevers Deynootplein in Scheveningen

‘When there was monumental architecture, there were beautiful cities as well,’ Berlage pronounced in 1904....

Designers: Hendricus Peter Berlage

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Hofdijk residential development

Verhoeven’s objective is to reintroduce waterside living in Rotterdam’s city centre. His Hofdijk residential quarter...

Designers: Jan Verhoeven

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Pampus Expansion Plan

Sometimes architects are like prophets. Like a vertebrate animal, this city stretches out in the...

Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Johannes Hendrik van den Broek

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Scattered urbanisation

Is it possible to live miles high in the midst of nature and to leap...

Designers: Adriaan Geuze

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The Cityless City

For Wijdeveld the world is a total theatre in which he can stage-manage his fantasies....

Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld

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Urban expansion, Eindhoven and environs

The term ‘planology’ – the science of planning – was introduced by De Casseres. This...

Designers: Joël Meijer de Casseres

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Vipcity / The Unadapted City

Breaking away from the rigid layout of cities is a central theme in Deleu’s work....

Designers: Luc Deleu

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Wieringermeer Land Reclamation Directorate (Northeast Polder Works)

Not everyone is welcome to this new polder . The uniform organisation of the landscape...

Client: Directie Wieringermeer

Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren

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Makeable

Everything can be designed

Everything in the Netherlands is engineered. Designing the city as well as the landscape is peculiar to the Dutch notion of makeability, which has its origins in the heroic struggle against water. Dutch urban planning is also permeated by the conviction that you can mould a good society with the right urban development plan. In the 20th century this resulted in a succession of plans on an ever-greater scale, culminating in the post-war expansion districts. Since then, public consultation and market forces have altered the character of the makeability concept. It has been replaced by flexible plans and new relations between city and countryside. Has anyone retained an overview? Perhaps Dutch makeability is ready for a new form of organisation?

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Council housing, Blijdorp

There lies the new world: spick and span and cheerful. From the air, the rational...

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