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    The Markerwaard is the name of a proposed, but never built, polder adjoining the IJsselmeer in the central Netherlands. Its construction would have resulted...
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    (1956–1966) The Markerwaard is the name of a proposed polder in the IJsselmeer that was never built. The construction of Markerwaard would have resulted...
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    Markerwaard was a planned fifth polder that has never been completed. It was intended to build a south-western polder, to be called the Markerwaard,...
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    an enormous project known as the Zuiderzee Works. One of these, the Markerwaard, was to occupy the area of the current Markermeer. Part of the construction...
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    built between Enkhuizen and Lelystad as the northern boundary of the Markerwaard, a planned but never realized polder in the IJsselmeer. This dyke, the...
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    2016. It is a nature reserve alternative to the much bigger proposed Markerwaard polder that was begun in 1941, but paused following World War II and...
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    IJssel) and Markermeer, planned to be mostly drained to make the Markerwaard. The Markerwaard was never built due to post-War fiscal austerity.[citation needed]...
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    works. Cornelis Lely's designs incorporated the island into a proposed Markerwaard. A partial dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that...
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    southwestern portion of the Zuiderzee, a polder that would have been called the Markerwaard, but this final stage of the reclamation project was indefinitely postponed...
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    east is the IJsselmeer. The 27-kilometer-long dike was intended for the Markerwaard, but this polder is now unlikely to be constructed. Although called a...
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    the ship to stage a protest against the proposed reclamation of the Markerwaard. Elisabeth Smit was severely damaged in a storm whilst moored at Muiden...
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    IJsselmeer. This dam was built as a possible northern dike to build the Markerwaard polder in 1975. Although construction of this polder has been permanently...
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    Middenlaan 78, Haarlem on 25 December 1973. Hoorn, Westfriesland en de Markerwaard Elze F. van der Ban, 1957. De provinciale indeling van de IJsselmeerpolders...
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  • Rhine. Houtribdijk: Initially built as the northern boundary for the Markerwaard, it now functions to delineate the waters between the Markermeer and...
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  • where he was involved in the design of Zeewolde, and made designs for Markerwaard, a polder that was never built. In the mid-eighties Koolhaas started...
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    Harderwijk N85 Purmerend - Almere (planned route into the discontinued Markerwaard polder) The numbers 86, 87 and 88 are vacant, while 89 to 100 were used...
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    slate for spatial planning. Lammers supported the construction of the Markerwaard, a proposed polder to the north of Flevoland, which was ultimately never...
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