Bijlmer: City of the Future, Part 1
The Bijlmermeer (which is the official name) is a collosal failure. It&#x27;s the closest thing to a ghetto that the Netherlands has. The city has sunk massive funds into attempts to improve things with some very limited effect. In the end the decision was made to tear down a large number of the flats (in one part aided by a cargo 747 that crashed right on top of one of the flats), but even that could not get rid the area of its stigma.<p>If you want to read more about it the wikipedia page (in Dutch) has a ton more information:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nl.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bijlmermeer_(Amsterdam)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nl.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bijlmermeer_(Amsterdam)</a><p>The last few years have seen things improve a bit, but it is nowhere near an integral part of Amsterdam, and the only reason people live there is because it is cheap or they have nowhere else to go (such as: Almere, Hoofddorp, Zaandam, Lelystad, Hoorn and Purmerend which are the other satellite cities of Amsterdam attracting the people the original Bijlmermeer was intended to house).