The bigger picture
By 2025, the municipality of Amsterdam’s ambition is to enable the construction of 50.000 housing units within the city limits. The municipality must consider not only the construction of the new houses in these expansion projects but also ensure that these new neigborhoods become livable. They need to consider an attractive design of the public space, the presence of education, care, cultural and sports facilities, and the use of local knowledge in the design plans. However, the municipality of Amsterdam views local knowledge and social values like social cohesion and emotions as abstract and challenging values to map and integrate into the design processes.
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The area of IJburg
IJburg, on the east side of Amsterdam, consists of six artificial islands. IJburg’s Steigereiland, Rieteiland, and Haveneiland make up its initial phase. IJburgs’ second phase, now under construction, comprises Centrumeiland, Strandeiland, and Buiteneiland. In 2020 the population increased to 24 000 and will rise to 50 000 in the future due to the construction of the three new islands. Despite IJburgs’ second phase encompassing three islands, the data collected for the deep map is based on local knowledge of IJburg phase 1. However, this project will also serve as a reflection of the development of Strandeiland because the final draft plan has yet to be finalized.