After Rotterdam’s historic center was bombed into oblivion during World War II, the city planners followed an idiosyncratic path, using the empty landscape to reimagine a futuristic metropolis.

On this shared street in Rotterdam ... Of all the cities I’ll visit on this trip, Rotterdam is the most comparable to a large American city. As such, the steps they’re taking to go from auto-dominated ...

Plans are afoot to redevelop “Coolsingel”, the broad street that runs in front of Rotterdam’s city hall, by 2020. In recent years, Rotterdam has asked its citizens to help change the city.

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