“You have to think very carefully about how you want to develop it,” says urban planner Riek Bakker. The upcoming new construction project is “beautiful”, but the development of a new neighborhood takes a lot of effort. There has been talk about housing construction in the Rijnenburg polder for years, but yesterday an agreement was finally reached with the government. Yet it will take at least ten years before the first pile is driven into the ground.
From pasture to residential area: how does the Rijnenburg polder become habitable?
