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See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6PQAI4TZE, about the Amsterdam neighbourhood De Pijp fight for a play street without cars in 1972.



Thank you for this link. I moved to Amsterdam less than three years ago, and the difference between what is shown in the video and how the whole city is now is just unbelievable. It's a testament and a lesson on how it's possible to really vastly transform things for better, with time and will.

Hemonystraat, one of the streets cited in the video, now:

https://www.google.it/maps/@52.3567496,4.9026422,3a,58.5y,13...




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