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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age
There’s a famous—to urbanists—story about Amsterdam in the 1970s. Today, Amsterdam is the poster child, almost the byword, for a quiet, clean European city that makes lots of room for pedestrians and bike riders. When people talk about “Europe” in terms of land use, they often mean, or you imagine, Amsterdam.
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