• Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Wetenschappelijk,
• Historisch

• Bouwen & Wonen,
• Gebiedsontwikkeling

Symbolic Gestures?

Planning and replanning Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer and new town Almere since 1965

The plans for the two largest and most important post-war urban expansions of Amsterdam, the Bijlmermeer (1965) and new town Almere (1971), were developed within a time span of only a few years, but their architecture and design layout could not be more different. Both have been subject of extensive regeneration policies. This article demonstrates how the professional views on the Bijlmer and Almere and the images brought about by policy makers interacted and correlated with each other, and how these have strongly influenced the composition of the regenaration schemes that have been developed over the last two decades.

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