The Dutch city of Houten never had a car-centric past.
Michael Andersen writes:
Dutch cities are famous for re-orienting their larger cities around bicycle transportation since the 1970s. What’s somewhat less known is that some of their newer suburban communities have never been auto-oriented.
Instead, they were built with bicycling in mind from day one.
Andersen has the pictures and the analysis to paint a vivid picture in Houten, which is described as "one of the country's most spectacularly livable suburbs."
FULL STORY: SUBURBIA REIMAGINED: AN AFTERNOON IN HOUTEN, NETHERLANDS
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