Swifterbant, Netherlands, Europe
 
 
Year1960latitude: 52° 34'
longitude: 5° 37'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organizationWieringermeer Directorate
Nationality initiator(s)Netherlands
Designer(s) / Architect(s)W.J.G. Van Mourik
Design organization
Inhabitants6,000 (2005)
Target population
Town websitehttp://www.dronten.nl
Town related links
Literature- Duin, R.H.A. van and G. de Kaste; The pocket guide to the Zuyder Zee project; 1990
- Wal, Coen van der; In Praise of Common Sense. Planning the Ordinary. A Physical Planning History of the New Towns in the IJsselmeerpolders; 1997

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
 > client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
 > policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
Original plan for Swifterbant, 1961
source: Nieuw Land Erfgoedcentrum, Lelystad


Map of Swifterbant, 1985
source: Nieuw Land Erfgoedcentrum, Lelystad