Gooistad
Bussumer Heath, Netherlands
Gooistad is a never-executed Amsterdam plan to build a large garden city in 't Gooi for citizens from Amsterdam.
| Garden City Type: | Mixed (housing association / municipality / other) |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| City: | Bussumer Heath |
| Years of construction: |
Never realised The plan never got beyond the drawing board. 0 Start construction
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| Initiator/client: | Gemeente Amsterdam |
| Architect or related: |
Gemeentelijke Woningdienst van Amsterdam |
| Heritage status: | No |
| General condition of Garden City: | Not realised |
General description
Gooistad, also known as Plan de Miranda (named after Amsterdam alderman Monne de Miranda) was the plan to build a garden city with 20,000 single-family homes for a total of about 80,000 to 100,000 residents. With this, Amsterdam wanted to alleviate the city's housing shortage. De Miranda first mentioned the plans in the press in 1922. A year later, Amsterdam appointed a committee "to study the question of building a garden city or garden villages in the vicinity of Amsterdam. The planned location was the moors between Bussum, Laren and Hilversum.
De Miranda wanted an "open garden for adults, both for the inhabitants of the garden city itself and for the core city of Amsterdam. He assumed 40 houses per hectare. This would involve an area of 250 hectares, with an additional 750 hectares laid out as a recreational area.
The plan provoked protests, particularly from the Gooi municipalities. After Amsterdam published the 'City Plan for Greater Amsterdam' in early 1926 – which distanced itself from earlier ideas about the formation of satellite towns outside the municipal boundaries – the plan of an Amsterdam enclave in the Gooi was definitively scrapped.
Protests against Gooistad eventually led to the establishment of the Goois Natuurreservaat in 1932. The reserve is managed by the Goois Natuurreservaat foundation.
Architecture / Urban planning
Gooistad was to have a strong concentric and symmetrical character. In addition to houses, there was room for schools, stores, churches, etc. On the west side, along the Bussum-Hilversum railroad line, business parks were planned. A wide, green hem would surround the city, while there would also be ample green space within the built-up area.
Sources
- Publication
Nol Verhagen, "An Amsterdam enclave on the Bussumer heath?" In: Bussums Historisch Tijdschrift (Historical Circle Bussum, no. 2, September 2017). [in Dutch]
- Website URL
Oneindig Noord-Holland: Een Amsterdamse enclave op de Gooise hei [in Dutch]
