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by Flow English Studio
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future stranger artificially peak failure equal bottom height Honeycombs Utopia Amsterdam rise demolished applied transportation housing Bijlmer ground dense Zoning many

This is " The " , it's a neighborhood in Amsterdam . Compared to the city's canals , great architecture and six - story tall buildings , the Bijlmer looks different . Its concrete buildings are arranged like .
There's lots of green space and even a raised Metro .

It looks strange , but a few decades ago it looked even . This is not just any ordinary City neighborhood ,
once upon a time the Bijlmer was the city of the future , a City built in a park , an in Amsterdam .

One day it was the country's largest project in history , another day it became its largest one .

In a time where the Netherland's urban planning is borderline fetishized , " The Bijlmer " is considered by some its
biggest urban planning . The Netherlands is not known for high - buildings , its people are tall enough so there's not much need for compensation . In the 60s though there was an exception .

" These high - rise Estates dominated the building in this era . These years proved to be the time of
housing production in the Netherlands and many other European countries "

After the second world war there weren't homes , but there were lots of people who needed them . All across Europe new
high - rise neighborhoods developed . These neighborhoods became experiments in new types of living .
Architects and planners believe the time of organic up cities was over , it was now the time to build them top down .

" C . I . A . M . is a group of the world's most leading urban planners and Architects . We have designed the cities of the .
The population is too within the historic nuclei of cities . Structures built along transportation routes and
around their intersections are detrimental to habitation . The ratio between the size of a population and the land area that it occupies can be entirely changed by the of buildings . High buildings set apart from one another must free the . "

Members of CM believe that the design of cities should divide living , working recreation and .
" This is the model we have created for a perfect City . High - rise buildings give room for Green Space
among large populations . separates housing work , recreation and travel . Efficient but separated transportation connects the different zones of the city .

Uniform and standardized buildings give access to sunlight . large green spaces give equal access to clean air . "
CM was influential but there were few places in the world that their
principles precisely one of the few places that did was .

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