The area quickly deteriorated and was highly criticized for the lack of management, a lot of homeless people and drug addicts present in buildings etc. Also the architecture aged quite quickly and although I really love the modern architecture of the 60s and 70s, they didn't really took my opinion into consideration. Around the beginning of 1996, the entire shopping center had been given a major facelift. The first project to recreate the area, Utrecht City Project, established in the 1980s, quickly failed, but a new one from 2006, CU2030, was, as we can see, quite successful. (previous | next | back to album | 2020:10:03 10:05:37 | 16% of an album)