The Dutch city testing the future of urban life - BBC Future
With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, is Almere a glimpse of what living in cities could be like?
The Dutch city testing the future of urban life 5 April 2022 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Norman Miller Features correspondent Pavlo Glazkov/Alamy The city of Almere was designed with the help of games that helped identify the infrastructure and street layout that residents wanted (Credit: Pavlo Glazkov/Alamy) With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give us a glimpse of what living in cities could be like in years to come? A little over a century ago, anyone looking out over the water on the eastern edges
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