Bijlmermeer: change and hybridization in the city of the future
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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2019123388Keywords:
Dutch urbanism, Large housing estates, Urban renewal, Topological analysis, Urban complexityAbstract
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 social stigmatization. This unstable situation triggered a change in its urban form, which ended up in the demolition of more than half of the high-rise buildings. Since 1992 there has been a gradual change in the urban structure of Bijlmermeer, which has led to a new urban paradigm, characterized by the diversity in building types and urban scale. In this article the modifications in the space of Bijlmermeer are analysed through topological schemes, recording how change and hybridization have altered its urban structure formally and relationally in a process of urban renewal that advocates an increase in complexity.
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