However, they did keep discussing about a small triangular section of 23 hectares between the Ringspoorbaan, the Haarlemmerweg and the unrealised connection to the Haarlem railway.

This downscaled plan envisaged strokenbouw (construction in parallel rows), in the same vein as the ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ of the new neighborhoods built in Frankfurt am Main in the 1920s.

Slotermeer is bordered to the north by the Haarlemmerweg and to the south by the Sloterplas (a lake) and Sloterpark, as well as Sportpark Ookmeer.

Many streets are named after World War II resistance fighters, mayors of Amsterdam and Dutch writers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Plein '40-'45 (the town square) and the south side of the Burgemeester de Vlugtlaan and the west side of the Slotermeerlaan form the centre of the neighbourhood, featuring an indoor mall, shops, a local market, the Vrijheidscarillon, the Garden City House (an office building), hotels, offices and a small harbour.

This plan was part of the major urban renewal project launched by Bureau Parkstad covering all of the Westelijke Tuinsteden.

One of the most striking projects is the major renovation of the Grote en Kleine Verfdoos, two colourful apartment buildings with shops on the Slotermeerlaan and Lodewijk van Deysselstraat.

Other projects include the renovation of the buildings on the Confuciusplein (a plaza) by architect Erna van Sambeek, new residential buildings by Margreet Duinker in the Socratesstraat and the new construction of a Multifunctional Centre called the De Honingraat (the honeycomb) on Slotermeerlaan by Dick van Gameren.