Amsterdam Zuidoost
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Amsterdam-Zuidoost is one of fifteen boroughs (stadsdelen) of the city of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. It consists of four residential areas—Bijlmermeer
Bijlmermeer
The Bijlmermeer or colloquially Bijlmer is one of the neighbourhoods that form the Amsterdam Zuidoost borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands. To many people, the Bijlmer designation is used to refer to Amsterdam Zuidoost and Diemen Zuid as a pars pro toto...

, Venserpolder, Gaasperdam
Gaasperdam
Gaasperdam is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands....

 and Driemond
Driemond
Driemond is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Amsterdam, and lies about 11 km west of Bussum....

—as well as the Amstel III/Bullewijk Business Park and the ArenA Boulevard area.

Amsterdam-Zuidoost has approximately 86,000 inhabitants, living in some 38,000 houses. 30% of the inhabitants of Amsterdam-Zuidoost are of Dutch origin, 30% of Surinam origin, 23% of African origin, 6% of Dutch Antillian origin and 2% of Moroccan origin.

Geographically, Amsterdam-Zuidoost is an exclave of Amsterdam—not directly bordering any other borough of the city.

Transport

Amsterdam-Zuidoost is served by bus, metro and NS
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen , or NS, is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands.Its trains operate over the tracks of the Dutch national railinfrastructure, operated by ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003...

 rail services. Duivendrecht
Duivendrecht railway station
The Duivendrecht railway station is a combined rail and metro station in Duivendrecht, Netherlands. The station opened in May 1993 as part of the extension of the Zuidtak of the Amsterdam Ringspoorbaan, between Amsterdam RAI and Weesp....

 and Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA
Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station
Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA is a railway station in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of the Amsterdam Zuidoost stadsdeel of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The station has five platforms and eight tracks; two for the Amsterdam Metro and six train tracks, along with a bus station.-History:Originally opened...

 stations serve the very north of the borough; Amsterdam Holendrecht railway station
Amsterdam Holendrecht railway station
Amsterdam Holendrecht is a railway station, in Amsterdam Zuidoost , the Netherlands.The station opened on 14 December 2008. Before that date Holendrecht was just a Metro station on the Amsterdam Metro network. The station was opened on 16 October 1977 as a metro station and is now served by two...

 serves the Academic Medical Center
Academic Medical Center
The Academic Medical Center , or AMC, is the university hospital affiliated with the Universiteit van Amsterdam ....

 as well its surrounding area. Amsterdam Metro
Amsterdam Metro
The Amsterdam Metro is a mixed rapid transit and light rail system in Amsterdam, and its surrounding municipalities Amstelveen, Diemen, and Ouder-Amstel in the Netherlands. The network is owned by the city of Amsterdam and operated by the Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf, the company that also operates...

 lines 50, 53 and 54 also serve the borough.

History

The part of Amsterdam-Zuidoost called Bijlmermeer was envisioned as a town of the future, built in accordance with the principles of the Swiss architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...

. In total, 18,000 houses would be built, 13,000 of which were flats in apartment blocks. Architect of the Bijlmermeer is Siegfried Nassuth
Siegfried Nassuth
Siegfried Nassuth was a Dutch architect, best known as the architect of the Bijlmermeer .He attended the Delft University of Technology...

.

Construction of the Bijlmermeer began in 1963. The first apartment block, named Hoogoord, was completed in 1968. The last of the 13,000 flats was completed in 1975. In 1977, Amsterdam's first metro line
Amsterdam Metro
The Amsterdam Metro is a mixed rapid transit and light rail system in Amsterdam, and its surrounding municipalities Amstelveen, Diemen, and Ouder-Amstel in the Netherlands. The network is owned by the city of Amsterdam and operated by the Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf, the company that also operates...

 was opened, connecting Zuidoost to the city center and Central Station.

In 1992 the Bijlmermeer was struck by disaster as an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i El Al
El Al
El Al Israel Airlines Ltd , trading as El Al , is the flag carrier of Israel. It operates scheduled domestic and international services and cargo flights to Europe, North America, Africa and the Far East from its main base in Ben Gurion International Airport...

 airplane El Al Flight 1862
El Al Flight 1862
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For the location in the Bijlmermeer, the crash is known in Dutch as the "Bijlmerramp"...

 crashed into the blocks called Groeneveen en Kruitberg, in the very heart of the Bijlmermeer. In the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 this disaster is known as the Bijlmerramp. 43 people were killed, including the three Israeli pilots. A memorial has been erected at the crash site.

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