Oct 16, Rotterdam

While the harbor city of the imagination is an exciting metropolis with a lively waterfront, such cities frequently prove, in reality, to be introspective places. This certainly is true of Rotterdam, a city where a band of dykes and quay structures have precluded any possibility of building on the edge of the River Maas. After the city’s bombing in the second world war, urban planners created “a window to the river”...more