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Introduction Like Liverpool's Docklands, Kop Van Zuid suffered a huge economic decline during the 1960s and 1970s. It gradually became a forgotten area, which was used only as an industrial junkyard and a rail-shunting yard for the Dutch Rail Company. The district of Feijenoord, which neighbours Kop Van Zuid, is classified as a high deprivation area, along with two other neighbouring boroughs. When the development of the plan was initiated, 30% of the labour force in the surrounding districts was unemployed, a number which had since risen to 40%. Although the economic situation improved to a certain extent since 1986, Feijenoord was not touched by the economic upswing. History Since 1978, plans were designed to restructure the area. The first houses, which were social houses, were built on the east side of the Kop Van Zuid area in 1980. Up until 1989, only 750 houses had been built. The plans created by the...

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