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Ijselbuurt-Oost, Amsterdam
One of the (many) trials and tribulations of being an independent researcher (that is, not attached to any formal teaching institute) is that much information is learned the hard way. A very hard way. It sometimes feels like ploughing through a field of deep mud with a broken share pulled by an ancient oxen that…
Roelof Hartplein, Amsterdam
The scale of the achievement of the housing built in Amsterdam between 1915 and 1940 is impressive. It is estimated that over 90,000 homes were built in total and managed by the municipality, housing associations, cooperatives and charities. Much of this filled the area which is known today as Amsterdam Zuid, built to a plan…
Betondorp; Amsterdam’s concrete village
Betondorp is a garden village in Amsterdam Oost, constructed between 1923 – 1927 during a period of intensive house building across the city in which thousands of homes were constructed by cooperatives, associations and the city council. It is part of the larger Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer garden village which consists of two distinctive areas. One half…
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