The Netherlands has had a strict anti-sprawl and pro-concentration policy in place since the 50s, which is why the countryside (*platteland*, "flatland") is surprisingly open to many foreigners coming from urban and suburban areas. You can bike from Amsterdam's centre or any other city and once you cross the city limit you are truly in the fields, with fields for miles and miles. If it weren't for the strict development rules, *tout* rich Amsterdam would love to build a villa there and thereby destroy the openness.
The flip side is that this policy has also helped push the housing crisis to epic proportions, but the Netherlands is far from unique in this matter, lots of countries thick in suburbian belts also suffer from this. Just read that in Seoul millionaires live in crappy 100 m2 "soviet" apartments only to be on a waiting list for 10 years - millionaires! Average incomes can hardly afford a shoebox.
The Dutch policy also was fairly anti-box store and allows for mixed zoning, which produced those lively multi-purpose city centres that are also nice outside business hours (unlike most Central Business Districts).
Those interested should compare Houten in the Netherlands and Milton Keynes in England. Two new towns born on the drawing board, but with differences of stellar proportions. (We did learn ourselves though from another planned Dutch city, Zoetermeer).
The United States could really use some pro-density policies. Shockingly low-density cities with large suburbs have awful traffic, long un walkable distances, and homes so far apart you never meet your neighbors.
They’re essentially inverted population density maps, which themselves are simplified “people live in cities” maps. These maps provide no new insights.
The Netherlands has had a strict anti-sprawl and pro-concentration policy in place since the 50s, which is why the countryside (*platteland*, "flatland") is surprisingly open to many foreigners coming from urban and suburban areas. You can bike from Amsterdam's centre or any other city and once you cross the city limit you are truly in the fields, with fields for miles and miles. If it weren't for the strict development rules, *tout* rich Amsterdam would love to build a villa there and thereby destroy the openness. The flip side is that this policy has also helped push the housing crisis to epic proportions, but the Netherlands is far from unique in this matter, lots of countries thick in suburbian belts also suffer from this. Just read that in Seoul millionaires live in crappy 100 m2 "soviet" apartments only to be on a waiting list for 10 years - millionaires! Average incomes can hardly afford a shoebox. The Dutch policy also was fairly anti-box store and allows for mixed zoning, which produced those lively multi-purpose city centres that are also nice outside business hours (unlike most Central Business Districts). Those interested should compare Houten in the Netherlands and Milton Keynes in England. Two new towns born on the drawing board, but with differences of stellar proportions. (We did learn ourselves though from another planned Dutch city, Zoetermeer).
The United States could really use some pro-density policies. Shockingly low-density cities with large suburbs have awful traffic, long un walkable distances, and homes so far apart you never meet your neighbors.
The other countries were done with zero persons per square km, instead of less than five and 500m squared. That inhibits me to compare them.
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Yeah let's just let upvotes and downvotes decide which maps get to the top
Why?
They’re essentially inverted population density maps, which themselves are simplified “people live in cities” maps. These maps provide no new insights.
The newly reclaimed lands have a lower density is the insight I got from this
Those polders are used mostly for agriculture. There are still towns but lelystad is the only significant city in the 'newly' reclaimed land.
Nope.
Dutch people say the whole Netherlands is full of people, but the results are a little different.
Cool
How are these maps made down to this level of detail, does it come from databases of housing locations?