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The Urban Country: Holland

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 21:17, last updated Mon, 04/09/2012 - 15:35

Rem Koolhaas once described the urban as pervasive. It took a tour of Holland for me to grasp quite what he meant. While Paris is mocked as a museum-city due to its protected urban tissue, in Holland it is the farmland that is protected, the rural tissue that cannot be modernized. This makes the experience of moving in the country, which is about the same size as the Dallas-Fort-Worth metropolis and has more people, utterly surreal.

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