Lutkemeer Reflections
With the students of our ‘Environmental Humanities’ Master’s Program, the Environmental Humanities Center is engaging with the pressing case of the Amsterdam Lutkemeerpolder. Situated at the western border of Amsterdam, the polder holds the last agricultural ground of the city. However, the municipality has decided to transform it into a business park.
Local stakeholders, amongst them an ecological farm sited on the polder, together with various citizen initiatives, are fighting this decision. They have developed a plan to instead convert the area into a food park, “Voedselpark Amsterdam” in which citizen initiatives can grow their own food.
We are starting a series of blog entries on this website to reflect on the developments from an Environmental Humanities perspective. You can find further information on the Lutkemeerpolder, including a petition to put the building activities on hold, here (https://redonsgroen.nl/). The alternative concept for a Food Park can be found here (https://voedselparkamsterdam.nl/).
Cover image: Detail from Bonneblad map, ca. 1880 accessed via topotijdreis.nl
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