"Amsterdam is undergoing a historic process of regeneration. Much of the city's reserve of social housing is being transformed into luxury accommodation for the growing numbers of "creative economy" employees. Meanwhile, waiting lists for the remaining social housing are flooded by former occupants forced out of their homes and neighbourhoods by renovation programmes. Merijn Oudenampsen describes a process of urban "rebirth" through place branding and social cleansing."

Capital & "Creativity" at work in Amsterdam.

Amsterdamse Federatie van Woningcorporaties - Federation of Amsterdam Housing Cooperatives. Social housing providers in Amsterdam. Great maps of social housing in the city.

Official site of the largest development underway in Amerstdam. 28.000 housing units on a number of artificial islands.

Decrying the closed planning process in the NL, with a somewhat confused idea of the role of design and art. "I never heard of a competition where the least talented designer was given the commission"

dutch wikipedia article on normaal amsterdams peil

Installation at the NAP point in Amsterdam. Tubes show the current sea levels and the high mark of the 1953 floods.

The Dutch reference water levels based on a (now) arbitrary standard in Amsterdam. It's all complicated by the fact that most of the Netherlands is sinking at the rate of 2mm a year.

regional gov't in Amersterdam - what they say they do