1. For a recent survey of the main events of the rebuilding of Rotterdam after the war, see F. Kauffmann, ‘Towards a “Modern” City Center’, in Het Nieuwe Bouwen in Rotterdam 1920–1960 (Delft, 1982) pp. 77–107. For useful information and pictorial analyses see R. Geurtsen and M. de Hoog, ‘Stad in stolling’, in Stedebouw in Rotterdam: Plannen en opstellen 1940–1981 (Rotterdam, 1981) pp. 99–115. For a full study of the planning and postwar development of Rotterdam see R. Blijstra, Rotterdam, stad in beweging (Amsterdam, 1965).
2. C. van Traa, ‘Rotterdams nieuwe binnenstad’, Bouw (1948) pp. 206–9. See also C. van Traa (ed.), Rotterdam. Der Neubau einer Stadt (Rotterdam, n.d.).
3. L. Mumford, ‘The Social Foundations of Post’War Building inCity Development Studies in Disintegration and Renewal (London, 1946) pp. 131–64. This paper was first printed in England, in the famous Rebuilding Britain series, no. 9.
4. Ibid. p.131.
5. By chance the Van Tijen & Maaskant office had already m 1939 worked out a plan for an industrial building with numerous provisions that were advanced for that time. 130 workplaces could be made available at reasonable rents as an alternative for the small firms in the slum area scheduled for clearance between Goudsesingel and Kipstraat. See Kauffmann (note 1), p. 88: 'Many collective buildings of this kind had already appeared in Germany, England and the United States, but the direct model seems to have been the well thought out and functional "Workplace Building" that the architect/designer Koen Limperg had designed as a solution for the bad accommodation of the clothing industry in Amsterdam, but which he could not find anyone to take on.' After the war Limperg's ideas were adapted by the architects Van Tijen & Maaskant. See H. A. Masskant and A. G. van der Veen, 'Collectieve bedrijfsvestiging