Floradorp is a neighborhood of Amsterdam-Noord, Netherlands in the Dutch province of North Holland. The neighborhood is bordered in the north by the Buiksloterdijk (a dyke), in the east by the Noorderpark and the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, in the west by the Klaprozenweg (Poppies Road) and in the south by the Sneeuwbalstraat (Snowball Street) in the Bloemenbuurt. The majority of street names in both the Bloemenbuurt and Floradorp are named after flowers and plants. By the Noord borough, the neighborhood is classified as part of the Volewijck (a neighborhood). Floradorp was built in the late 1920s by the municipality of Amsterdam, at a time when homes in the city centre were declared uninhabitable on a large scale, such as in the Uilenburg, Rapenburg (also an island) and the Jordaan. Plans were developed for public housing replacements. The Bloemenbuurt, between the Sneeuwbalstraat and the Mosplein (Moss Square), and Floradorp formed the biggest part of Tuindorp Buiksloterham, one the many garden cities developed in Amsterdam between 1920 and 1940 to counterbalance the impoverished working-class neighborhoods in the city centre. The garden cities in the Watergraafsmeer, Buiksloot, Buiksloterham, Nieuwendam and Oostzaan are owed to the progressive aldermen Floor Wibaut and Salomon Rodrigues de Miranda, and the dynamism of Arie Keppler, director of the Amsterdam Municipal Housing Service. Uninhabitable declared homes In the first quarter of the 20th century, there was a problematic housing shortage in Amsterdam. Although at the same time plans were being made to revitalise run-down neighborhoods in the city centre with new public housing. Hundreds of slum dwellings could only be declared uninhabitable once there was a reasonable alternative for the residents. In response, the municipality of Amsterdam planned to build multiple garden cities around the old parts of the city. Here, new homes were to be built in newly annexed neighbouring municipalities such as Buiksloot and Nieuwendam, so that Amsterdam could offer a new home. Low rent In Floradorp, the municipality built houses in accordance with the Woningwet (Housing Act) for large famillies. These houses had three or four bedrooms which met the minimum standards. This made the homes eligible for a government grant and low rent, as the intended tenants had little to spend. The various rooms were no larger than the minimum dimensions. Along with the houses in Tuindorp Nieuwendam, the houses in the neighbouring Bloemenbuurt by housing association Zomers Buiten were among the first working-class houses in