Polder Atlas of the Netherlands is a milestone in the study of the polder landscape of the Dutch lowlands. With over 500 maps, drawings and aerial photographs is exposed the overwhelming richness of the landscape.

The more than 4,000 polders of the Dutch lowlands are all systematically shown in this atlas, both in their water management rules and in their spatial form. In one nationwide and digitized map can be found all polders using coordinates and associated registers. 17 on the basis of examples, the shape characteristics of the different types of polder be exposed and typological interpreted. This provides the atlas a scenic kit for understanding and developing the landscape.

In this groundbreaking study of the entire polder series, from the birth of the first polders to Southern Flevoland, is the landscape architecture. The creative work that was needed in the new land, obtained by extraction, dams and drainage, to make a living, private and beautiful landscape. Atlas is in this sense also reflects the state of the art in the art.