Het toekomstig landschap der Zuiderzeepolders (1928); Future Landscape of the Zuiderzee Polders. In opdracht van het Nederlandsch Instituut voor Volkshuisvesting en Stedebouw

Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema, (1928). Wraps. Quarto, wraps, 94 pp, good with some wear, tanning and soil to covers, contents clean and bright. 94 pp, illustrated. A "polder" is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by dikes. The Zuiderzee Works is a man-made system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage work, in total the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the damming of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water using polders. Its main purposes are to improve flood protection and create additional land for agriculture. The American Society of Civil Engineers declared these works, together with the Delta Works in the South-West of the Netherlands, as among the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Good. Item #H29551

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