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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
1/ Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer (Watergraafsmeer Garden Village), better known as Betondorp – Concrete Village; built for Amsterdam’s Municipal Housing Service, 1921-25. Concrete was used due to a brick shortage and as a trial of modern materials.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨 New post: How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part II, Bergpolderflat and the Prototypical Slab Block municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
Frontispiece and inside line drawing illustration of Bergpolderflat from Yorke and Gibberd, The Modern Flat (1937)
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 NEW POST: the scheme that inspired our postwar 'streets in the sky' - the Justus van Effen Estate in Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman's masterpiece of the early 1920s. (New photos by @matthew-cook.bsky.social added.) municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
Courtyard and gallery viewGallery view with pot plantsInner courtyard
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 My new blogpost: 'Social Housing in Cologne, 1913-1933: Light, Air and Trees … and Modernism' municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/s...
White City modernist tenement blockWhite City modernist tenement blockWhite City modernist tenement blocks and church
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