The neighborhood is bordered in the north by the Buiksloterdijk (a dyke), in the east by the Noorderpark and the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, in the west by the Klaprozenweg (Poppies Road) and in the south by the Sneeuwbalstraat (Snowball Street) in the Bloemenbuurt.

Floradorp was built in the late 1920s by the municipality of Amsterdam, at a time when homes in the city centre were declared uninhabitable on a large scale, such as in the Uilenburg, Rapenburg (also an island) and the Jordaan.

The garden cities in the Watergraafsmeer, Buiksloot, Buiksloterham, Nieuwendam and Oostzaan are owed to the progressive aldermen Floor Wibaut and Salomon Rodrigues de Miranda, and the dynamism of Arie Keppler, director of the Amsterdam Municipal Housing Service.

Although at the same time plans were being made to revitalise run-down neighborhoods in the city centre with new public housing.

This made the homes eligible for a government grant and low rent, as the intended tenants had little to spend.

Zomers Buiten rented its houses primarily to skilled artisans with permanent positions at the municipality of Amsterdam.

Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at nl:Floradorp; see its history for attribution.