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You can view the original post here We talked rather a lot about denser cities when the City of Ottawa’s new Official Plan was mentioned: extra properties on an acre to accommodate a rising inhabitants, but additionally to realize higher returns on public transit and make the 15 minute neighbourhoods possible. However how does that truly appear like if it's not Hongkong, Manhattan or a type of megacities in China? Or Madrid, Paris or Rome? Tons of house As Canadians, we prefer to assume, “ we have tons of space because we live in a big country “, but size doesn’t really matter. Once in a while I get comments on Twitter, when I throw in another cool Dutch infrastructure thing: “ Haha, in Canada we commute 100 km, in Holland you will have crossed the country! ” Properly really, it's not distance, it's time. It's an financial actuality: you'll be able to’t actually commute 8 hours a day. Few excessive rises in Dutch villages I'm at the mo...

One of many Dutch ‘inventions’ that comes up typically after I speak about site visitors with Canadians is the “Wooh-nerve”. Initially I wasn’t certain what they had been speaking about however I quickly discovered is in regards to the ‘woon-erf’. A woonerf is an idea that rose to fame within the 1970’s and 1980’s to power site visitors to decelerate in residential neighbourhoods, giving the streets again to non motorised autos and hopefully to extend social interplay. It was developed by Niek de Boer in Emmen in 1968 for a brand new neighbourhood and additional carried out and adjusted for current nineteenth and twentieth century streets by Joost Váhl, a scholar of Mr. De Boer. Woonerf, koolsla and jacht The woonerf comes from the Dutch phrase ‘wonen’ (to dwell, as in “Ik woon in Canada”, or “Ik woon in een huis”) and the phrase ‘erf’, which is the realm across the farmhouse the place chickens roam, the canine guards, the milk cans are cleaned and the wood sneakers...