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Kop van Zuid is a former port district on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas, redeveloped since the 1990s into a showcase of contemporary architecture. It was one of Europe's largest urban renewal projects.
The district was the departure point for millions of European emigrants heading to the Americas via Holland America Line in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abandoned by the 1970s when port operations moved west, it was masterplanned in the 1990s with the Erasmus Bridge as its catalyst.