When the once-flour­ish­ing port lost its func­tion, the decision was made to turn the dis­trict into a prom­in­ent res­id­en­tial area. Diverse urb­an plans were devised for the vari­ous sec­tions of the dis­trict. Vir­tu­ally every Dutch archi­tect of stand­ing and renown con­trib­uted to the archi­tec­tur­al real­iz­a­tion of these plans, mak­ing the East­ern Har­bor Dis­trict not only a pleas­ant and highly sought-after res­id­en­tial area, but also a true sampling of the Dutch hous­ing con­struc­tion of recent decades.