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The purpose of this study is to reveal that Aldo van Eyck’s concept on Amsterdam playgrounds is focused on humanist values, which were critical themes of postwar modern architecture. He was committed to replacing the mechanistic doctrines of the postwar reconstruction with a humanist architecture, which to him meant an architecture of community. So I trace the emergence of his ideas in his relatively ignored but seminal projects, the playgrounds of Amsterdam. In conclusion, Aldo van Eyck's humanistic values of Amsterdam playgrounds are acquired by creative and voluntary use, that is to say, open function, and both polycentric and decentric composition. His over seven hundreds playgrounds in postwar Amsterdam turn individual urban voids into urban community places and they must become parts of the city's everyday fabric.