Strangely, there are well-planned places in Europe. Since the cities in Europe settled ages ago.
Wow is an understatement. That is one gorgeous place. The Dutch have built a beautiful country, a lot of it reclaimed from the sea. Truly inspired.
Looks like American suburb on the water.
I know it’s probably built very bike centric as it’s in the Netherlands but in the end developments like this will destroy urban fabric and lead to where the US is now already
And I am not even sure about the bike centric built to be honest
I stupidly expected the Netherlands landscape will be boring before I went there – mostly because the country is flat as a pancake. But no, it’s amazing and crazy, water-land-water-land and this just [goes on and on.](https://i.imgur.com/8VhC4fY.jpg)
The entire place is like an open-air exhibit to engineering (the drainage canals tend to be _above_ the field-level… they couldn’t drain into the sea otherwise) but it’s not some urban/mechanized hell. Mostly it’s very green and pleasant-looking, cows graze unassumingly and you forget you’re literally below sea level because some madlads decided to go to war with it 500 years ago.
How is it like to live there during winter storms I wonder.. Or maybe they don’t get storms like we have up here.
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Strangely, there are well-planned places in Europe. Since the cities in Europe settled ages ago.
Wow is an understatement. That is one gorgeous place. The Dutch have built a beautiful country, a lot of it reclaimed from the sea. Truly inspired.
Looks like American suburb on the water.
I know it’s probably built very bike centric as it’s in the Netherlands but in the end developments like this will destroy urban fabric and lead to where the US is now already
And I am not even sure about the bike centric built to be honest
I stupidly expected the Netherlands landscape will be boring before I went there – mostly because the country is flat as a pancake. But no, it’s amazing and crazy, water-land-water-land and this just [goes on and on.](https://i.imgur.com/8VhC4fY.jpg)
The entire place is like an open-air exhibit to engineering (the drainage canals tend to be _above_ the field-level… they couldn’t drain into the sea otherwise) but it’s not some urban/mechanized hell. Mostly it’s very green and pleasant-looking, cows graze unassumingly and you forget you’re literally below sea level because some madlads decided to go to war with it 500 years ago.
How is it like to live there during winter storms I wonder.. Or maybe they don’t get storms like we have up here.