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‘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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Carpet Metropolis: Urban Development Study for the Environs of The Hague For many people, a city is a red dot amidst a green landscape, like this... Client: Gemeente Den Haag, Dienst Stadsontwikkeling en Grondzaken Designers: Willem Jan Neutelings |
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Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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In 1921, Frederik van Eeden unveiled his plans for founding a utopian state in the... Designers: Jacob (Jack) London |
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Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Johannes Hendrik van den Broek |
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Expansion Plan for The Hague /Scheveningen In his urban development plans just after 1900, architect Berlage places great emphasis on creating... Designers: Hendricus Petrus 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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Client: Directie Wieringermeer Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren |
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Can an urban planning design be instrumental in creating a sense of community and social... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema |
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Plan for Expanding the Southern Area of Amsterdam Designers: Hendricus Petrus Berlage |
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Plans for the Expansion of Eindhoven Designers: Joël Meijer de Casseres |
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Designers: Adriaan Geuze |
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The feverish, uncontrolled proliferation of contemporary cities motivates the conception of new design strategies to... Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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VipCity is part of a larger project in which Belgian architect and conceptual artist Luc... Designers: Luc Deleu |
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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?
The board of De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam decided in 1948 that a new bank...