Bijlmermeer: change and hybridization in the city of the future ; Bijlmermeer, cambio e hibridación en la ciudad del futuro

The Bijlmermeer district was designed in 1965 under the influence of the CIAM’s functionalist postulates. Bijlmermeer was planned as the city of the future in Amsterdam, integrating the concepts of large scale, collective use of spaces and segregation of the four basic functions of modern urbanism: housing, transport, work and leisure. These premises materialised in an urban landscape made up of high-rise buildings placed over a vast public space, in which the strict segregation of traffic was applied. Since its initial occupancy, Bijlmermeer suffered rapid degradation led by high vacancy and... Mehr ...