Three years ago -to the day- I started this blog and 327
posts have been published online since. I thought it would be a nice moment to once
again reflect on which posts were most popular these past few years and which
were not viewed much at all, also in comparison to my first overview a year
ago. So to start off the Top 10 of best viewed blog posts with on the right the
ranking in 2015:
-1- EVA-Lanxmeer
- Culemborg (NL) Tuindorp Buiksloterham
-2- Beringen Mijn - Campine (BE) Beringen Mijn
-3- Carl Seitz Hof - Vienna (AT) EVA-Lanxmeer
-4- Cité Jardin André Dumont - Genk (BE) Carl
Seitz Hof
-5- Tuindorp Buiksloterham - Amsterdam (NL) Cité
Jardin André Dumont
-6- Luchtbal
- Antwerp (BE) Tuindorp Vooruit
-7- Mulhouse Quadrangle - Mulhouse (FR) Kaiserforum
-8- Amsterdam-Zuidoost
or Bijlmer (NL) La Cité Moderne
-9- Tower Gardens - London (UK) Amsterdam-Zuidoost
-10- Tuindorp Vooruit - Ede (NL) Gartenstadt
Rüppurr
There have been a few
changes in the Top 10. In the Top 5 EVA-Lanxmeer, an ecological estate,
has moved to the first position. The Garden village in Amsterdam-North
Buiksloterham has dropped as a result of the rise of especially Carl Seitz Hof
in Vienna and the Cité André Dumont in Genk. The highest new entry is The
Antwerp suburb of Luchtbal, especially the modernist addition south of the
garden village for harbour workers has proven popular. The Mulhouse Quadrangle
or Carré Mulhousien and the LCC garden suburb of Tower Gardens are the other
two new entries in this Top 10. Some popular post just fell short of the Top
10: e.g. La Cité Moderne in Brussels, Gartenstadt Rüppurr in Karlsruhe, the Mining Colony Zwartberg in Genk, The Kaiserforum in Vienna, The Garden village
Moortebeek in Brussels, Tuindorp De Burgh in Eindhoven, Leopoldsburg in
Belgium, Margarethenhöhe in Essen, the modernist pioneer village of Nagele in
the Netherlands and the Origins of Dutch Gables explained.
Equally interesting as these Top 10 are the Bottom 10:
-214-* Cités Jardins - Brussels (BE)
-213- Factory Villages, Industrial Revolution (BE),
Brandenburg a/d Havel (DE),
-210- Suburbs Utrecht (NL), Market Towns in the Low
Countries (BE-NL-LU), Lierre (BE) and Vught (NL)
-206- Garden Squares - London
-205- Water wolf
(NL), Water Cities in the Low Countries (BE-NL-LU) and Metro-land (UK).
-202- Model Homes - Stuttgart (DE) and Little known grids: Düsseldorf (DE)
-200- Fortified Cities of the Low Countries
(BE-NL-LU), Kielpark - Antwerp (BE) and Axial Interventions Munich (DE)
-197- Nordbahndorfl - Stuttgart (DE)
-196- Albertopolis
- London (UK).
There have been quite some changes in the Bottom 10.
Some of these posts in the Bottom 10 are old others are recent. So there is no
clear-cut reason for these changes in overall ranking. It's not the case that
general posts on a certain phenomenon (e.g. Water Cities, Fortified Cities or
Model Homes Exibitions) are by definition less popular that posts on a specific
project or urban area. The post on Albertopolis for instance has had little
views when comparable projects (Maxvorstadt, Kaiserforum and Forum Fridericianum) have many more views. This is probably a case of the better
known example attracting the most attraction. This is also the case with
ecological housing projects. EVA-Lanxmeer dominates whilst In Goede Aarde gets
only a franction of the attention.
* I'm excluding all impressions and the first post
which makes for 214 "proper posts" in total over the past three
years. Also within the group of least viewed post some have exactly the same
amount of views, so they have been aggregated under the same ranking.
Some of the impression have proven more popular than
others. So here the top 10:
-1- Urban nature: survivalists (2014)
-2- Braem Pavilion (2014)
-3- Late flowers (2013)
-4- Middelheim Sculpture Park (2014)
-5- Polder village Buiksloot (2014)
-6- GLOW 2015 (2015)
-7- Ivy, a late developer (2014)
-8- Beautiful Bavarian Bells (2015)
-9- Re-inventing the wheel (2015)
-10- Urban nature: something special (2015)
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