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It is stated in the passage that although ----, it was mostly unable to do so.
During the “hunger winter” of 1944 in Amsterdam,
over 20,000 people died of starvation. Many of the
city's trees were cut down, and the interiors of
abandoned buildings broken up for fuel. When peace
came this once most beautiful and urbane of cities
was in urgent need of large-scale reconstruction. In
the years following the end of World War II in
Europe, modern architecture had an unprecedented
opportunity to demonstrate a socially minded, urban
style. The consensus today is that in most places it
failed. The young Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck was
one of the earliest critics of the mechanistic approach
taken by his modernist colleagues to urban
reconstruction. The failure of architecture and
planning to recreate forms of urban community and
solidarity has become a problem in post-war Europe,
as so many acclaimed housing estates, new towns,
or newly designed urban quarters, around Europe,
have been troubled by vandalism, disrepair and
abandonment. Van Eyck saw this coming. In 1947 at
the age of 28, he went to work for the Office for
Public Works in Amsterdam and, as his first project,
built a small playground. This was in line with his
belief that by promoting and shaping the daily
“encounter” or “inbetween-ness” of social space,
architecture could humanize cities and create public
trust.