Designing the New Land: A historical look into the design of the Noordoostpolder

The design of the Noordoostpolder not only included the placement of the villages, trees farms and land lots, but the social structures were also drawn out into detail. A strict selection was applied for those who wanted to have a chance of getting a farm. But did these two different factors – selection and architectural design – relate to each...

The Noordoostpolder: A Landscape Planning Perspective on the Preservation and Development of Twentieth-Century Polder Landscapes in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has a centuries-long tradition of reclaiming land. In the last century gaining land from water peaked with the IJsselmeerpolders, made possible by technical innovations. The Noordoostpolder (1937–1942), one of the IJsselmeerpolders, is a unique example of a fully designed agricultural landscape of the twentieth century. It is the...

The impact of a breach in the Afsluitdijk on the probability of failure of IJsselmeer dikes

At the moment, for determining the safety of the dike ring areas around the IJsselmeer a possible failure of the Afsluitdijk is assumed to have no influence on loads occurring on the IJsselmeer dikes. As failure of the Afsluitdijk is always possible, the consequences of such a failure should be investigated. The objective of this thesis is to...

Flexwater Pilot Noordoostpolder: Verkennend naar mogelijkheden voor brakwaterwinning met Optiwin

Dit rapport betreft een pilot studie van de derde fase van het Flexwater project. Doel van deze fase is het genereren en beoordelen van kansrijke nieuwe concepten voor productie en transport van drinkwater in bestaande situaties, zodat de drinkwatervoorziening kosteneffectiever wordt, minder verdroging veroorzaakt, de vergunde capaciteit beter...