The $1.8 Billion Plan for Amsterdam

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  • @hoogyoutube
    @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +123

    If you'd like to support the channel, check out our building kit: hoog.shop/products/pontsteiger

    • @TheMythh
      @TheMythh 8 месяцев назад +3

      "I couldn't be fucked to rerender" 🤣

    • @lowseasonbitch
      @lowseasonbitch 8 месяцев назад +1

      great video ! good job my man

    • @jaysunbrady
      @jaysunbrady 8 месяцев назад

      After living there I get it. I'd give anything to be able to live there again.

    • @AAb-xy6et
      @AAb-xy6et 8 месяцев назад

      De Bijlmer was great, it's just sad they filled it up with criminals, The Netherlands currently barely got any prisons left, they just put such people in de Bijlmer, the idea on itself was great.

    • @user-uy1rg8td1v
      @user-uy1rg8td1v 6 месяцев назад

      Great RUclips channel and videos, but I found the background music to be too loud though. I would highly suggest to not have any background music. I strongly believe background music is annoying, distracting and unnecessary (especially for educational videos with lots of talking). I also believe people want to hear you speak and not hear generic background music that doesn't add anything productive and that people have to to mentally filter out. I'm also a little neurodivergent and am vulnerable to audio over-stimulation. Plus it will be one less thing thing to do when making videos. Thank you for you consideration.

  • @CupOfKai
    @CupOfKai 8 месяцев назад +1099

    Remember having a coffee in Houdthaven and being like “oh would love to live here let’s have a look” and there being literally nothing below 1.2 mil 😢

    • @JustATrippyDuck
      @JustATrippyDuck 8 месяцев назад

      The cut to the amount of social housing was a travesty

    • @Skankhunt668
      @Skankhunt668 8 месяцев назад +24

      jup sad reality

    • @sorenjunkers3834
      @sorenjunkers3834 8 месяцев назад +55

      yeah like all of those things its only for rich people

    • @JennyvdK
      @JennyvdK 8 месяцев назад +61

      It's Amsterdam... Al houses there are unaffordable

    • @Sp4mMe
      @Sp4mMe 8 месяцев назад

      I still find it hard to blame the "good" places for that issue. The problem is that lots of other places are crap - and that there isn't enough of them of any quality. That's what driving this demand; it's not the "fault" of the well designed ones. Though of course we can talk about various social policies and so on, but that's really just treating symptoms instead of the cause.

  • @David-mj4gw
    @David-mj4gw 8 месяцев назад +5165

    Hoog try not to glaze Amsterdam for 5 minutes challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

    • @Distress.
      @Distress. 8 месяцев назад +288

      Haven't watched it yet, and I'm sure its got good points, but seems like Amsterdam is the new Sweden for disaffected Americans.

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +845

      Sorry

    • @mach1nefan
      @mach1nefan 8 месяцев назад

      @@AdanSolas looks like someone’s fallen victim to bullshit propaganda 🤷

    • @CAPTAiNC
      @CAPTAiNC 8 месяцев назад +54

      Typisch 020 gedrag hahah

    • @JelliinaCup
      @JelliinaCup 8 месяцев назад +114

      @hoogyoutube oh you're fine, it's why we're here

  • @waralo191
    @waralo191 8 месяцев назад +694

    What a pity that there are not more cafes and shops, big developement projects always fail because they seperate living, leisure and working, instead of packing them close together

    • @v13w5
      @v13w5 8 месяцев назад +9

      Yes.

    • @ShirleyShirley-t5f
      @ShirleyShirley-t5f 8 месяцев назад +12

      Are you suggesting the 15 minute suburb? Sounds a good idea and what else we don’t expect.

    • @DavidBcc
      @DavidBcc 8 месяцев назад +10

      It's prohibitively expensive to run a business in communist Amsterdam, no one would take the risk in a new neighborhood.

    • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox
      @MaximusAugustusOrthodox 8 месяцев назад +130

      @@DavidBcc „communist Amsterdam“ 💀 let me guess you are American right?

    • @DavidBcc
      @DavidBcc 8 месяцев назад +9

      @@MaximusAugustusOrthodox Nope, left the EU years ago. You *know* it's getting bad, but you're probably still in denial.

  • @sserpxee
    @sserpxee 8 месяцев назад +358

    So I just looked up what up for sale in this neighbourhood. Cheapest you can find is €369000 for a 39m² appartment. Most of them are between 500k and 1million. If you want to live on meme island, there's 1 appartment you can still bid on, but it's currently on €925k.

    • @luipaardprint
      @luipaardprint 8 месяцев назад +31

      You overlooked the 250.000 euro 20 square meter apartments!

    • @ivanbykov8974
      @ivanbykov8974 8 месяцев назад +33

      That’s not too far from Amsterdam’s average right now.

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +138

      Amsterdam is one of the most demanded cities at the moment to live in. And it's in a country with the worst housing crisis in Europe. Even if you built a monotonous high rise, you'd still have super expensive apartments. The design itself, with the exception of the tunnel, artificial canals, and the individually designed homes on Narva (although I imagine these will be able to procedurally generated in the future) are not the relevant part here for why the costs are so high.

    • @jiriwichern
      @jiriwichern 8 месяцев назад +57

      I own a two room apartment (barely 50 m2 total) on the other side of the Netherlands, in Nijmegen (near the German border), in an architecturally so called 'Bloemkoolwijk' (early '80s). No elevator (housing that stays below 3 main floors doesn't have to include one, following the Dutch building code) no parking space, just the apartment itself. In ten years its taxable value (WOZ) went from €87.000 to over €200.000. This is for an over 40 years old apartment on the outskirts of a medium sized (170.000 inhabitants) Dutch city. You can bet new 'affordable' houses in Amsterdam are way, way, way more expensive. Definitely with current housing prices.
      A typical sub 100m2 Dutch '1 family' house (rijtjeswoning) easily hits the €350.000 here. And those are considered the cheap family houses. You bet in Amsterdam you can't find anything decent for a family to live in under €500.000. And all it brings me are high taxes. You can't eat bricks.

    • @Azoury1
      @Azoury1 8 месяцев назад +15

      Halve of Memeleiland is social/student housing. I pay 400€ including utilities with 2 roommates for a 90m2 apartment with a balcony.

  • @isohora
    @isohora 8 месяцев назад +1921

    My favorite Netherlands psyop channel uploaded again 🎉🎉

    • @NKuijlaars
      @NKuijlaars 8 месяцев назад +139

      Careful... Not Just Bikes might hear you...

    • @JanSanono
      @JanSanono 8 месяцев назад

      Mgw we het meest effectieve propagandasysteem op RUclips hebben en het volledig afhangt van R*mpsterdam 🤢🤮

    • @fokker_dr1706
      @fokker_dr1706 8 месяцев назад +59

      Interesting that The Aesthetic City also uploaded a video about the dutch town Brandevoort at the exact same time.
      I'm feeling that my mind slowly gets gekoloniseerd.

    • @addisalemayehu7546
      @addisalemayehu7546 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@NKuijlaars he is one of a kind

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise 8 месяцев назад +57

      Urbanism RUclips is one of the most effective propaganda endeavors of this century.
      I am an American 🇺🇸 🌭 I was unironically a big fan of the original BBC Top Gear, I love motorsports, and I don’t own a bicycle. I live in a rural area with a large lawn to mow, in a region with fuck all public transportation (even Amtrak only serves one north/south interstate corridor, and it’s expensive), and yet I am 100% onboard with eliminating 99% of cars, as well as 100% of pickup trucks, housing subdivisions, and Walmarts. Well done, comrades, you have thoroughly indoctrinated me. Aaaanyyyywaaay, I’m gonna go admire the new roundabout they installed near TGIFridays. I heard it’s fucking 🤌.

  • @eenis1281
    @eenis1281 8 месяцев назад +856

    Interlinked

    • @Wydliez
      @Wydliez 8 месяцев назад +60

      First time he said it, I knew he was internet enough to make the joke

    • @backstein972
      @backstein972 8 месяцев назад +42

      Its a reference to Bladerunner 2049 i think@NoahElShemy

    • @EGRJ
      @EGRJ 8 месяцев назад

      @NoahElShemy In Blade Runner 2049, the main character is a synthetic human cop. The cops regularly test him to make sure he's "baseline"; not having any dangerous (human) feelings.
      The test is some guy asking him questions, including the word "interlinked".
      Just search for "blade runner baseline test".

    • @Cm0nd00d
      @Cm0nd00d 8 месяцев назад +35

      cells within cells

    • @Christian-Tibosi
      @Christian-Tibosi 8 месяцев назад +16

      @@Cm0nd00d Interlinked

  • @sownheard
    @sownheard 8 месяцев назад +1778

    5:34 MEME, Eiland

  • @jbx9950
    @jbx9950 8 месяцев назад +293

    I've lived all over Amsterdam: NIeuwmarkt (the oldest part of town), Amsterdam Noord (post-war high-rise similar to what you see when he mentions de Bijlmer), Oud West (trendy neighborhood from around the turn of the century), Zeeburg (worker's neighborhood also from the turn of the century), Ijburg (man-made island from the turn of the millennium) and Zeeburgereiland (a neighborhood "completed" in 2018). I can say that Amsterdam has learned from its mistakes and mastered the art of building exceptionally great livable neighborhoods (Ijburg and Zeeburgereiland are perfect examples, ask anyone who's actually lived around here). They continue, however, to struggle with 1. making them beautiful (although they have some very nice buildings and moments), 2. connecting them efficiently to the rest of the city, and 3., of course, making them affordable for people to invest into (buy a house and form/become part of a community). This is an awesome video.

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 8 месяцев назад +6

      This is how you write IJburg. Both I and J are the Dutch Y.

    • @mernisch8307
      @mernisch8307 8 месяцев назад +7

      I think they are not well connected because Dutch soil conditions make building mass transit extremely difficult and expensive. This, combined with the extensive cycling network and high rate of cycling, just makes it hard to justify going through the painful process of building transit infrastructure. Because of cycling, mass transit is never a necessity and isn't seen as utmost important in the construction of new neighborhoods

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 8 месяцев назад +12

      @@mernisch8307 Sorry, not quite. The Netherlands has an excellent train network. 60 % of the Dutch live within 6 km from a train station. And were there are not train, such in the Noord Oost Polder, there are buses.
      Bikes are not long distance vehicles. 10 km one way distance is regarded by experts as the practical limit. 15 km as the limit for experienced cyclists and 25 km for E-bike cyclists. So 20, 30 and 50 km in total.

    • @mernisch8307
      @mernisch8307 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@mardiffv.8775 this actually perfectly follows my theory. Everything is designed with bikes in mind. This means inner city transit connections are relatively weak as biking is the preferred mode of transportation (they were talking about the connection between different neighborhoods in a single city). For connections between different cities on the other hand, bikes and trains complement each other very well, that's why the they run a very extensive national train system.

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 8 месяцев назад +11

      @@mernisch8307 Yes and no, Dutch cities have bus, subway and tram lines too. Because not everyone can or wants to cycle. The number is people cycling is 25 %. Also 25 % of all trips inside Dutch cities are done on foot and 25 % take public transport. The remaining 25 % is done by car. So Dutchies have plenty of options.
      Also Dutch cities have been REdesigned for the bike from the 90's onwards. Up to the 70's the car was nr. 1 in city planning. Dutchies cycling dropped 6 % each year.
      The main reason why bikes were given priority is safe streets, because cars killed nearly 4000 Dutchmen each year in the early 70's, including 400 children. That is why a protest movement "Stop de kindermoord/ stop the child murder" held protests and politicians pick up the message for safe streets.
      And cycling infra does not stop at the city limits. You can cycle in the whole of the Netherlands in safety.

  • @theskyyisgold8824
    @theskyyisgold8824 8 месяцев назад +55

    I walked through this neighborhood last year and was so impressed by it! so beautiful and calm, this is truly one of the best modern urban planning and architecture projects I have seen so far

    • @ProducerJakeyJam
      @ProducerJakeyJam 8 месяцев назад +1

      You to Freiburg Germany and have a look at the Vabaun Quartier. It's the best place in the world in my opinion

    • @on-the-pitch-p3w
      @on-the-pitch-p3w 6 месяцев назад

      @@ProducerJakeyJamLet me guess… you are from Germany. 😂

  • @the_aesthetic_city
    @the_aesthetic_city 8 месяцев назад +13

    Great video, as usual - I loved the part about how the Bijlmermeer not only provides homes, but also *information* on how to not build massive housing projects.
    Cheers!!

  • @theorixlux
    @theorixlux 8 месяцев назад +496

    Your VA failed the replicant deviancy test 9:21 send him in

    • @LotusOverWater
      @LotusOverWater 8 месяцев назад +18

      I noticed that too jajajaja

    • @melkboi8306
      @melkboi8306 8 месяцев назад +43

      INTERLINKED

    • @EGRJ
      @EGRJ 8 месяцев назад +43

      He's not even *close* to baseline.

    • @musansombo7590
      @musansombo7590 8 месяцев назад +1

      Cells

    • @kre4ture218
      @kre4ture218 7 месяцев назад

      Someone explain this please

  • @rudeboy212
    @rudeboy212 8 месяцев назад +98

    A niche youtube channel about architecture has become for me a top 3 best youtube channels to ever exist, and I don't even like architecture unless I'm watching your videos.

    • @SKVLE
      @SKVLE 7 месяцев назад

      What are the others?

    • @rudeboy212
      @rudeboy212 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@SKVLE
      "Kurzgesagt" and "Canal Nostalgia"

  • @cmw3737
    @cmw3737 8 месяцев назад +18

    The principle of a container with strong constraints but with room to play and be creative and unique within those constraints applies to so much in life. From good architecture and neighbourhoods to raising children to employee job satisfaction. It is what we naturally feel joyous about. A balance of certainty, familiarity and safety but also freedom and change.

  • @yuhau1535
    @yuhau1535 8 месяцев назад +71

    This channel is an ode to the Netherlands urban planning ♥

    • @MvD-kt2rx
      @MvD-kt2rx 7 месяцев назад

      I thought the 1.8 billion was needed by Ajax to keep up with Feyenoord

    • @AbeJager
      @AbeJager 6 месяцев назад

      @@MvD-kt2rxsad but likely true

  • @vindicies7399
    @vindicies7399 8 месяцев назад +17

    this is one of the best videos i've watched this year. i love everything, the topic, the animation style, the cool and rational explainations. what a brick!

  • @janlowes232
    @janlowes232 4 месяца назад +5

    i love it how you first think the voice with the old microphone is real until it talks about the sponsor

  • @GizmoMaxx
    @GizmoMaxx 8 месяцев назад +35

    Best YT Channel hands down. The Visuals The Storyline The Presentation its Grand !

  • @ChrisMarrin
    @ChrisMarrin 8 месяцев назад +10

    Can we appreciate the visuals and animations? It is so beautifully made!

  • @milovansluis
    @milovansluis 8 месяцев назад +27

    Fckn coool as always, next level storytelling and visuals

  • @petersantos6395
    @petersantos6395 8 месяцев назад +73

    You didn't mention public transport, which there is practically none in this area (1 bus stop), passing through the houthavens everyday I can tell you this is the worst area in Amsterdam for traffic, maybe in the future it will improve but at the moment I don't see any plans being made

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +22

      Fair. But I think west is generally weak in public transit overall, not specifically houthavens

    • @RobSoskop
      @RobSoskop 8 месяцев назад +15

      It's perfectly easy to reach by bicycle. One of my best friends lives there and I always cycle there if I go there to visit him. Besides that, Haarlemmerplein is not far from there and once you're there you're in the centre of Amsterdam. There's also a ferry to Noord and there are many bars, restaurants, shops and parks really closeby.

    • @kimberlysoto6864
      @kimberlysoto6864 7 месяцев назад

      @@petersantos6395 this is the biggest reason I don’t rent hotel rooms at one lovely spot in particular in Houthavens….the accessibility by public transport is not there. Sadly.

    • @rayian536
      @rayian536 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@kimberlysoto6864How so? With the bus 48 you're in centraal station in 15 minutes. From there you have access to everything.

    • @on-the-pitch-p3w
      @on-the-pitch-p3w 6 месяцев назад

      @@kimberlysoto6864Bike. 😂

  • @mariussulland5920
    @mariussulland5920 8 месяцев назад +58

    travelling to Amsterdam for the 7th time in late june. cant wait to walk the streets after watching your videos. Thanks!

    • @danielserrano929
      @danielserrano929 8 месяцев назад +2

      I visited the city back in Jan. 2019 and i loved it so much. Such a rich culture and unique city design, I would definitely go back!

    • @benanders4412
      @benanders4412 8 месяцев назад

      I don't understand why people go to Amsterdam.
      My family lived there for at least 10 generations. We fled the city.
      I avoid that city like the plague. Just like most of it's original inhabitants.
      The only place still worth visiting is the zoo.

    • @danielserrano929
      @danielserrano929 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@benanders4412 It depends on what you like, I loved the coffeeshops and bars. The red light district is so much fun to just walk through. Though wouldn’t move there anytime soon, not because I dont know the language but because I know the job market is crazy competitive and I’m a blue collar worker.

    • @benanders4412
      @benanders4412 8 месяцев назад

      @@danielserrano929 That's probably it. I don't care about any of that. But i worked in Amsterdam {blue collar worker back then}. Plenty of work. Made good money. But a horrible experience for any blue collar worker who needs a car to do his job. Plus the fact that you can't leave any tools anywhere because they get stolen. And junkies will break into everything, even a chemical toilet. So you need to take all tools with you every day. And for that you need a car. Parking is expensive and sometimes not even possible anywhere close to the job. So you have to carry your tools for two blocks back and fort every day. And sometime discover that your toilet has become unusable because junkies have broken into it and left needles all over the place.
      So i had a horrible experience working there in a blue collar job. In fact, it motivated me to do extra schooling so i could move to a white collar job in another city.

    • @literallyjustgrass
      @literallyjustgrass 8 месяцев назад

      @@benanders4412 Most people that go to amsterdam don't go there to live there for their entire lives, they go for a day, maybe a week 😅. Once the novelty wears off i'd want a quieter place too.

  • @James-bt9og
    @James-bt9og 8 месяцев назад +4

    this is an incredible video. I lived in Houthavens for a couple years and your explanation of it all really puts words to how it felt to live there.

  • @red_skies80
    @red_skies80 8 месяцев назад +46

    I mean, even the Bijlmermeer (a supposed dystopic housing development) looks 100 times better than any social housing project I’ve seen built in that decade

    • @MartijnPennings
      @MartijnPennings 8 месяцев назад +12

      The problem was that nobody wanted to live there, so in the end the only people that did live there were the ones who didn't have a choice. Those were the immigrants from former Dutch colonies such as Surinam and the Antilles, and migrant workers from the 50's and 60's from Turkey and Morocco. They weren't wanted in any other neighborhood, so the Bijlmeeer was their refuge. Unemployment and crime were sky high and the entire neighborhood became unsafe.

    • @MartijnPennings
      @MartijnPennings 8 месяцев назад +3

      Hoog made a video about it: ruclips.net/video/sJsu7Tv-fRY/видео.htmlsi=vUvTMxvgYVgRrDcU

  • @pingwingugu5
    @pingwingugu5 8 месяцев назад +39

    It looks amazing. Though I doubt that this is affordable by any means. Even ignoring the canals, hiding most of the car traffic and parking spaces undergrounds has to be expensive.

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +3

      Mega

    • @Nooliy1
      @Nooliy1 7 месяцев назад

      Well you can thank the government for that.

  • @for_nothing_important
    @for_nothing_important 8 месяцев назад +145

    Hoog is definitely sponsored by Amsterdam.

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +48

      I wish

    • @Pharosare
      @Pharosare 8 месяцев назад

      @@hoogyoutube are you a dutch psyop?

    • @on-the-pitch-p3w
      @on-the-pitch-p3w 6 месяцев назад

      Well not to get more tourists… Amsterdam wishes less tourists 😂 Over 20 million per year. Why would they sponsor Hoog?

  • @jordanhalpin4125
    @jordanhalpin4125 8 месяцев назад +2

    Love how your style is developing, clarifying and improving! Keep being unique.

  • @yakub3962
    @yakub3962 8 месяцев назад +194

    What if we kissed in the Meme Island 😳👉🏻👈🏻

    • @1brocktune
      @1brocktune 8 месяцев назад +4

      69 likes NO ONE ELSE LIKE THIS

    • @orelegend1244
      @orelegend1244 8 месяцев назад +5

      I feel sto stupid for laughing at meme eiland

    • @eelksnis
      @eelksnis 3 месяца назад

      He made a mistake, it’s MemelEiland , check Google . It’s an old name of Klaipeda in Lithuania, Baltic’s where wood used to come from. Majority of the islands are named after cities in Baltics. So weird he didn’t mention that :/

  • @MulderJosh
    @MulderJosh 8 месяцев назад +2

    Really informative video! I live in the Houthavens and did not know all this. It’s really well thought out and the ‘vibe’ of the neighborhood is really good.

  • @Muscles_McGee
    @Muscles_McGee 8 месяцев назад +16

    The narrator you found and the voice filter used is exactly the same as famous voice actors from the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Pretty amazing reproduction of that exact style.

    • @K1ddkanuck
      @K1ddkanuck 8 месяцев назад +2

      Was going to say this. It is almost eerie how authentically mid modern the voiceover sounds.

    • @Muscles_McGee
      @Muscles_McGee 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@K1ddkanuck I love smart people who get my references. Makes me feel all warm and buttery.

    • @K1ddkanuck
      @K1ddkanuck 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@Muscles_McGee You're a gentleman and a scholar, sir.

  • @TheIggyTech
    @TheIggyTech 8 месяцев назад +14

    It's interesting you mentioned the "organized chaos" design language. I stayed with a friend living in NDSM Warf last year for a few days and saw the exact same design philosophy. Lots of large apartment buildings but every one of them had their own design and style so as to avoid a "sameness" affect.
    That same friend said that locals refer to the Pontsteiger as "the toilet bowl" so take that for what you will lol :D

  • @TheeAncientUrchin
    @TheeAncientUrchin 8 месяцев назад +4

    Genuinely, some of the best videos on this site.

  • @r6k8n99
    @r6k8n99 8 месяцев назад +5

    "built to match the vibe" is a good sentence, def top 10

  • @liefdesbaard
    @liefdesbaard 8 месяцев назад

    Amazing how you absolutely transform these, already quite interesting topics into high quality, high production value masterpieces like these.

  • @kyleid3446
    @kyleid3446 8 месяцев назад +50

    Honestly jealous we don't really have many neighbourhoods like this in London. Nordhavn, kobenhavn sv, and carlsberg factory neighbourhoods in copenhagen are absolutely amazing

    • @luipaardprint
      @luipaardprint 8 месяцев назад +8

      I’m sure you would love to buy a 20 square meter apartment for 200.000 euros.
      Although if you’re from London that probably sound reasonable now that I think about it.

    • @kyleid3446
      @kyleid3446 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@luipaardprintyou're on point. At least copenhagen gets nice new neighbourhoods, while the UK makes new neighbourhoods worse than old ones, for some bizarre reason. And yes 200k for 20sqm in london will be a 50 minute commute and you'll have rotting floorboards and mould in every corner :(

    • @tgb-nm8yd
      @tgb-nm8yd 8 месяцев назад

      You live in fake London? Because real London is quite the city...

  • @kingfish2703
    @kingfish2703 6 месяцев назад +2

    Amsterdam is by far the most advanced and beautiful city I've ever been to. It's like a hopeful view into the future

  • @bastaartp7855
    @bastaartp7855 8 месяцев назад +4

    As someone from Amsterdam, new neighborhoods like Houthaven and IJburg symbolyze a typical issue for Amsterdam (and in ways the Netherlands in general). It is a big-city neighborhood, a city with a center that is not really built for cars, yet the suburbs are built around cars specifically. I don't have an issue with the cars themselves, but reaching these neighborhoods from anywhere outside of Amsterdam using public transport is a ridiculous time-investment. I used to live in Haarlem, at 5 min from the train station, which in turn has a 15 minute connection to Amsterdam central station. However, getting to my work in IJburg was a daily 2x 1 hour+ commute.
    Don't get me wrong, I love the style of some streets in these neighborhood (not all, but still better than your average big city modern construction projects), but my pet peeve, public transport, tends to get overlooked, while it should be the perfect location for it.

  • @bigfactsbroski
    @bigfactsbroski 6 месяцев назад

    Love it, the music is very harmonious and well chosen and the video is informative and soothing. I want to visit Amsterdam, now!

  • @_loss_
    @_loss_ 8 месяцев назад +4

    I really like how some of the names derive from other towns/cities in Europe that were relevant to the timber trade.

  • @arwildo
    @arwildo 7 месяцев назад

    Interesting topic, amazing animation.. One of the best channel on RUclips 👏

  • @ruben9912
    @ruben9912 8 месяцев назад +131

    As someone who was born and raised in this city: just to be clear, true locals all hate this building (Pontsteiger) with a burning passion. It embodies an elite that is completely detached from reality.
    Just like the building, which is like a fortress for rich people, inserted near what has been for decades been the most valuable building in the city.
    Drive your mercedes AMG straight into the parking garage and never meet another soul! Sounds like the future already.
    "How Amsterdam built a monolithic eyesore with the most spacious and luxury interiors no working class person could ever afford"
    In a city lacking tens of thousands of housing units, this is the shit that keeps making it through all the "bureaucracy".
    We'll soon have dozens of these developments and will be no closer to a housing solution.
    "Progress!"

    • @luipaardprint
      @luipaardprint 8 месяцев назад +16

      Oh good, I just finished writing my comment about hating this building with a passion as well 😂 I was less eloquent though.

    • @damianborkowski7429
      @damianborkowski7429 8 месяцев назад +12

      True locals sound quite spiteful

    • @趙金德-x9v
      @趙金德-x9v 8 месяцев назад

      "True" locals. What else are there? "Fake" locals?

    • @patrick_test123
      @patrick_test123 8 месяцев назад +3

      Maybe if they build the dozent of those, they might inch closer to the number of flats they bulldozed in Bijlmermeer

    • @luipaardprint
      @luipaardprint 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@damianborkowski7429 the neighbourhood was very harmonious in its design beforehand, the building just sticks out like a grotesque eyesore. The rest of the neighbourhood is fine though, if a bit expensive.

  • @waviyanlokss4157
    @waviyanlokss4157 8 месяцев назад +1

    That ad break blended in so well I had to watch it twice lol😂 had a feeling cause the graphics but the quality got me😂just shows the lengths u go to entertain us👊🏽

  • @sohigh10
    @sohigh10 8 месяцев назад +11

    "give them choice" is an interesting take when there is so little availability at such high cost.

  • @TTocsxic
    @TTocsxic 8 месяцев назад +1

    Leuk gedaan weer vent. Was al fan van jouw Bijlmer video en nu eentje over de buurt waar ik zelf woon, awesome!

  • @vcalblas
    @vcalblas 8 месяцев назад +27

    Meme Island? You misread the name, Hoog. It's Memel Island, with an extra L. Named after Memel, the old name for the Lithuanian city of Klaipėda.

    • @toddb.7016
      @toddb.7016 8 месяцев назад +1

      You miss read. Take a look again.

    • @dem1seCS
      @dem1seCS 8 месяцев назад

      @@toddb.7016 can't believe that it flew right over his head lol

    • @toddb.7016
      @toddb.7016 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@dem1seCS Some people see what they want to i guess

    • @MIKE_OSCAR
      @MIKE_OSCAR 14 дней назад

      @@toddb.7016you did, it has a small L, Memel, if you check the video. Probably a graphic mistake 😁

  • @guusbekkers2901
    @guusbekkers2901 8 месяцев назад

    video production quality is through the roof, great job!

  • @Freakcent
    @Freakcent 8 месяцев назад +3

    Hij is weer erg fijn! Dank,
    De mazzel

  • @JeanUlrichItsUlrich
    @JeanUlrichItsUlrich 8 месяцев назад

    Ive been waiting so long for you to cover this. this video is a piece of art. bravo.

  • @MakeMeThinkAgain
    @MakeMeThinkAgain 8 месяцев назад +4

    The views from above are better at showing how few distinct buildings there actually are. These are not rows of separate buildings but buildings with variable facades. This is necessary to place the auto infrastructure below.

  • @mazzy_vc
    @mazzy_vc 7 месяцев назад

    Such a clean video, I really loved the aesthetics & transitions

  • @nielskooloos5726
    @nielskooloos5726 8 месяцев назад +3

    I've been following you casually since you started uploading and I can only say: you deserve all the succes! These videos are insanely well-made and researched.

  • @Arjay404
    @Arjay404 8 месяцев назад +2

    Dude this video was freaking amazing.
    Those little models are also really nice, might need to get myself the pack that comes with both.

  • @LetsDoThisAlone
    @LetsDoThisAlone 8 месяцев назад +6

    1:41 left bottom corner 🤣

    • @bullishboi
      @bullishboi 6 месяцев назад

      @@LetsDoThisAlone yeah I just see that😂😂

  • @Fsaud20
    @Fsaud20 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks!

  • @durchschnittlich
    @durchschnittlich 8 месяцев назад +7

    Amsterdam is a giant art project

    • @theorixlux
      @theorixlux 8 месяцев назад

      Picasso , I like it

    • @Svebderman
      @Svebderman 8 месяцев назад

      But also nearly a million people!

  • @noahswart
    @noahswart 8 месяцев назад

    Your productions are insaneee! Could watch these just for the visuals!

  • @axinqmc
    @axinqmc 8 месяцев назад +11

    Dude these videos are always amazing, thanks for another banger :)

  • @digotron2000
    @digotron2000 8 месяцев назад +2

    i lived in the bijlmer for maybe a month or two and it was really nice. theres been some new development that brought mixed use stuff and some more variety. It seems it wasnt perfect when it was built but its adapted and improved over time. I just really like how the density of the buildings allows for a lot of public green space your basically just living in a park, I definitely think theres more that could be built upon that idea

  • @ratznefumel
    @ratznefumel 8 месяцев назад +29

    Goed filmpje weer hoog. Interesting to see different variations. Structured chaos is a great way to stop making vinex wijken. Unique homes make you feel more strongly connect to said home.

  • @Autohunter06
    @Autohunter06 7 месяцев назад +1

    As a born Amsterdammer, i always suprised about Amsterdam. its keep innovating and growing with each day ! we only with 800.000 citizens

  • @weelqa
    @weelqa 8 месяцев назад +3

    This was interesting to watch, thank you!

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you for watching!

  • @philipvanooteghem3289
    @philipvanooteghem3289 3 месяца назад

    Bedankt

  • @taagoallas3336
    @taagoallas3336 Месяц назад +3

    5:32 meme island best island

  • @nandorio1841
    @nandorio1841 4 месяца назад

    i have been done many walks there is actually my dreamplace to live in Amsterdam, looks from another dimension and the views on the pier are just brilliant

  • @marcdegat9775
    @marcdegat9775 8 месяцев назад +6

    I am usually irritated by an advertisement in the middle a video-I have a premium account to avoid them. The ad in the middle of this video was handled so artfully, The same vintage voice from the previous segment was brilliant. The ad did not interrupt the video, but enhanced it; kudos

  • @sneezydanger
    @sneezydanger 8 месяцев назад

    The quality of production of this one was amazing, well done

  • @schlaumayer3754
    @schlaumayer3754 8 месяцев назад +12

    It's Memel-eiland, not Meme-eiland (I assume named after the Memel river, the border between Kaliningrad (Russia) and Lithuania and from 1918 to 1945 the easternmost border of the German Empire)

    • @MChagall
      @MChagall 8 месяцев назад

      Eastern*

    • @schlaumayer3754
      @schlaumayer3754 8 месяцев назад

      @@MChagall Yes, obviously. Thanks

    • @alexvlkvkna
      @alexvlkvkna 8 месяцев назад +4

      More likely it's named after Memel the city, nowadays known as Klaipeda. The naming convention here revolves around Baltic ports - Memel, Narva, Vyborg, Libau (Liepaja), Revel (Tallinn), Stettin (Szczecin), Karlskrona

  • @onlyNujabes
    @onlyNujabes 8 месяцев назад

    Props to the production value of this vid. Amazing work.

  • @ReginaJewelry
    @ReginaJewelry 8 месяцев назад +39

    OMG DRONE SHOTS???! You officially broke the Internet

  • @sparge8916
    @sparge8916 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for this kind of vids, really informatieve, interesten and the quality of them is insane. Keep it up!!!

  • @aaronjones8905
    @aaronjones8905 8 месяцев назад +17

    Build for beauty, and the people will add the function. Build for function, and beauty will forever struggle.

    • @fidelio9301
      @fidelio9301 8 месяцев назад +1

      Facts. It’s soulless.

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 8 месяцев назад +2

      That sounds nice, but it's empty rhetoric.

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ 8 месяцев назад

    A few years back I visited the rijksmuseum and of all objects one painting impressed me most. Anybody who visited A'dam knows that the pavement and many houses at the grachten , canals are skewed ...this painting from the 17th century was made just after the finished canal builts. Everything in that picture is perfect and new..a real eye opener and realization of the workings of time.

  • @boubou1910
    @boubou1910 8 месяцев назад +10

    wat een prachtige docu,bedankt.............

  • @Mcat-What
    @Mcat-What 8 месяцев назад +1

    Can't wait to see the new Not Just Bikes vid about this place!

  • @tomvanderhulst5664
    @tomvanderhulst5664 8 месяцев назад +5

    Ongekend, wat een bizar hoge kwaliteit hebben jouw video’s!

  • @elemersanmiguel
    @elemersanmiguel 8 месяцев назад +1

    I work just next to Houthavens, glad to learn more about its history!

  • @Crytica.
    @Crytica. 8 месяцев назад +5

    Do I want to know how expensive the "afforadable" houses are? Looking at all this I can only imagine that it's really not for your average joe.

    • @hoogyoutube
      @hoogyoutube  8 месяцев назад +4

      The Netherlands, and Amsterdam generally are not affordable for the average joe.

    • @Skankhunt668
      @Skankhunt668 8 месяцев назад

      @@hoogyoutube that is an understatement this is one of the things that i like more about belgium compared tp the Netherlands. houses are actually affordable enough.

  • @meucanalmix
    @meucanalmix 8 месяцев назад +1

    I just love the Dutch people and their genius in planning

  • @jmac3327
    @jmac3327 8 месяцев назад +4

    The "options" are severely circumscribed. The blandness and uniformity of the sites may appeal only to a population without alternatives.

  • @colinvos7304
    @colinvos7304 7 месяцев назад

    Currently working at Karlskronaeiland and having worked on various other islands. its pretty cool to know the history about the project. As well as various other details that are mostly/never spoken about on the jobsite

  • @Cypher791
    @Cypher791 8 месяцев назад +4

    The neighbourhood will be safe so long as it is expensive to live there, or if there is at least some expensive to living there.

  • @lolololol7573
    @lolololol7573 8 месяцев назад

    Toffe video!!! Ik hoop dat je meer van dit soort videos wil maken, ook over andere dorpen of steden. Ik vind het super interessant.

  • @MrBrianyoruk
    @MrBrianyoruk 8 месяцев назад +9

    >Mentions dutch once
    *EYES GLOW IN SPICE* W I L H E L M U S

  • @culturebreath369
    @culturebreath369 4 месяца назад

    Absolutely loving this channel.
    Cheers. ❣️🤙

  • @MrApple-yw9vp
    @MrApple-yw9vp 8 месяцев назад +5

    Yeah cool, now make the housing affordable and I am in

  • @croozerdog
    @croozerdog 2 месяца назад

    i still love emmen's combination of modernist concrete blocks and personality, they put some futher back creating little pockets of gardens, they make some in squares creating little communal areas inside, regardless of how the city itself turned out. the documentary about it from andere tijden is very good. it's funny seeing people from the big cities take tourbusses to marvel at emmen.

  • @lossless4129
    @lossless4129 8 месяцев назад +5

    Hunnyyyy! Hoog video dropped!

  • @tom_edge
    @tom_edge 6 месяцев назад

    I recently stayed at a hotel in the Ponsteiger building, and walked through the full area on the way to westerpark. For me, it doesn't come close to the vibes of true, old Amsterdam, but for a new development is one of the best I have ever experienced - managing to incorporate some soul and feeling to a brand new, purpose built area

  • @TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict
    @TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict 2 месяца назад +3

    5:37 Meme Island

  • @Stelvisti
    @Stelvisti 8 месяцев назад +1

    First off all.. a-ma-zing video again.
    For the people who are visiting this area , don’t forget to cross the park and visit the original Amsterdamse School area. You will be mindblown. There is a building/museum called “het schip” and worth visiting.
    I have lived in this area for over 20 years in one of those old warehouses and loved the transformation of this neighborhood from kinda bad to one of the most creative and inspiring places in amsterdam.

  • @MarideMari82
    @MarideMari82 8 месяцев назад +12

    It’s not different. It’s the same expensive unaffordable bs housing that Amsterdam has been building for 10 years.

  • @wilmer4421
    @wilmer4421 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love the lemmino style of your videos, theyre cinematic

  • @nnov_tech_chan7891
    @nnov_tech_chan7891 8 месяцев назад +3

    Build more houses. Lets keep housing price low, it is going to be a benefit for everybody.

    • @Rein_
      @Rein_ 8 месяцев назад

      these are expensive. but agree with building more.

  • @moumous87
    @moumous87 8 месяцев назад +2

    the editing is top tier!!!

  • @rollthetape88
    @rollthetape88 8 месяцев назад +4

    how did you get the Middle American accent '50s narration ?

  • @luclaan8165
    @luclaan8165 8 месяцев назад +1

    My uncle life’s here. I’ve stayed a few times for a week when he was on holiday and it’s really comfortable and a cool place to be. on the Narva island.

  • @aguspuig6615
    @aguspuig6615 8 месяцев назад +4

    Me a southern european: WHY CANT WE BE LIKE THEM

  • @Kōnran_YT
    @Kōnran_YT 8 месяцев назад

    You and your team are so good at what you do, really inspiring stuff, keep it up neighbour 😁

  • @atlanta2076
    @atlanta2076 8 месяцев назад +11

    I love that fake advertising for the islands that blends a 50s narrator with CGI from the 80s. ♥

  • @TQUMI
    @TQUMI 8 месяцев назад

    Amazing video! I love the architecture of amsterdam, just visited the netherlands a few months ago. Its the pleasant feeling by walking through the streets, which makes it such unique.