Although the local estate agent had farms for sale, these were residences at exorbitant prices for ‘Amsterdammers who want a farm but don’t actually want to farm’.98 The irony, said Koolhaas, was that wealthy urbanites were moving to the area ‘attracted by its aura of authenticity’, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the very quality that drew them was being eroded by their own ‘urbanising presence’.99
