IJburg is going to be a new Amsterdam district, consisting of six artificial islands. They lie in the IJ, the former harbour mouth, east of the island Zeeburg, and close to the Eastern Docklands. The water is wide enough there to develop 18.000 dwellings and not very deep, which made it easily possible to win land. You could make islands by the so called pancake method. And then we have, within a few years, a new district with 45.000 inhabitans.

The district follows more or less the scheme of the Eastern Docklands, but certainly  in a less ambitious manner. The dwellings were developed in a period of a certain decline in economics - many expensive designs had to be be replaced.