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Pieter van der Weele and Reinout Rutte The story behind Borssele’s form and orientation Origins and significance of a seventeenth-century Zeeland village plan Erik Lips ‘Here one lives in the world’. Luxury high-rise from the post-war reconstruction period (1948-1963)
Boekbesprekingen
Carly Misset (red.), De Grote Kerk van Alkmaar. 500 jaar bouwen en behouden (bespreking Pepijn van Doesburg) Coert Peter Krabbe, Huizen van fortuin. Wooncultuur aan de Amsterdamse grachten 1860-1920 (bespreking Esther de Haan) Paul Meurs en Isabel van Lent, Schiphol. Grensverleggend luchthavenontwerp 1967-1975 (bespreking Iris Burgers) Ronald van Genabeek, Eddie Nijhof en Frederike Schipper (red.), Stad op de schop. 40 jaar archeologisch onderzoek in ’s-Hertogenbosch en Ranjith Jayasena, Graaf- en modderwerk. Een archeologische stadsgeschiedenis van Amsterdam (bespreking Marcel IJsselstijn) Ben Maandag, Stadsvernieuwing in Rotterdam. Vijftig jaar bouwen in de buurt (bespreking Aimée Albers)
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2021-03-12
Articles
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The village of Borssele was founded in 1616 in a polder of the same name on the island of Zuid-Beveland in the province of Zeeland. The driving force behind both the diking of the polder and the construction of the village during the Twelve Year Truce (1609-1621) in the young Dutch Republic was the mayor of the city of Goes, Cornelis Soetwater. This article argues that the unusual form and orientation of the Borssele village plan reflects a conscious decision by Soetwater to combine and improve on the best of the Zeeland’s impoldering and village planning tradition, and on the most...
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In Dutch history the years between 1945 and 1965 are regarded as the period of post-war recovery and reconstruction (wederopbouw). One of the main issues of this period was the urgent need to house the rapidly rising Dutch population. High-rise dwellings were seen as one of the answers and, according to many, desirable. However, after the war, and even into the early 1960s, the construction of high-rise apartment towers was considered suitable for only a small, relatively well-to-do, part of the Dutch population. It was thought that most people would not be interested in living...
Book reviews
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Book review of a book written by Carly Misset (red.)
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Book review of a book written by Coert Peter Krabbe
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Book review of a book written by Paul Meurs and Isabel van Lent
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Book review of a book written by Ronald van Genabeek, Eddie Nijhof & Frederike Schipper (eds.) and by Ranjith Jayasena
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Book review of a book written by Ben Maandag
