Ineke Teijmant

This is the third in the series of books about Amsterdam's post-war Western suburbs by Ms. Teijmant that I have read. It is also the least interesting. Whereas other books concentrate on Dutch modernists' ideas about city and neighbourhood planning or about Bauhaus inspired interior design, this book mainly interviews a relatively small group of inhabitants shortly before these blocks were demolished. Everybody was quite fond of their small, old houses and the relationship with neighbours was all hunky dory. These conclusions are not supported with any further (statistical) evidence.… (meer)