Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Just north of the Central Station, an explosion of modern architecture has been happening for the last 15 years. Its a very strange neighborhood. Canals have been built with modernist tract canal houses lining them. Each canal hosue is different (probably 20 or 30 different styles), and yet each canal is lined with the exact same sequence of homes. It's a bizarre blend that attempts to take the best of the past and the present, with somewhat mixed results.
There still isn't much of a "community" to speak of. Street life is pretty minimal compared to the rest of Amsterdam, but what an interesting experiment. And I really wonder how it will develop in the next 10 years and if it will be considered another Dutch success story.
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