Wikipedia on Almere: "Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: the land on which the city sits, the Southern Flevoland polder, was reclaimed from the IJsse

Wikipedia on Almere: "Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: the land on which the city sits, the Southern Flevoland polder, was reclaimed from the IJsselmeer from 1959 to 1968. " Reclaimed isn't quite the right word. They turned ocean into land. This was possible because of a megadike construction project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works This created buildable waters. But rather than just building land on the water and houses on the land, one can directly build houses on the (buildable) water. The scope of ambition is truly inspiring.