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Zorgvliedt - Morgenrood en het Utopia

Short documentary, 1975, 34 min.

In 1921, the architects Michiel de Klerk and Pieter Lodewijk Kramer were commissioned by housing corporation De Dageraad to build a large block of working-class houses in the Amsterdam Spaarndammerbuurt quarter. De Dageraad wanted to enhance the workers' self-esteem by housing them in nice apartments. This documentary examines to what extent the commissioners and contractors succeeded in doing that.

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