Amsterdam’s fig trees are showing why cities will play a vital role in the fight to stop the decline of biodiversity
Ever since humans started to create settlements thousands of years ago, many plant and animal species have struggled to survive.…
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Amsterdam is laying down a model for what tourism should look like after Covid
When Covid hit the Netherlands in 2020, Amsterdam emptied of visitors overnight. Long-term residents, inured to the permanent noise and…
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Covid-19 has given rise to new, smaller tech hubs. Could they solve tech’s diversity issues?
Covid-19 is driving the emergence of smaller, more affordable tech hubs in the US and Europe, enabling the industry to…
ByIn Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, feminists are campaigning to name more streets after women
In Paris this summer, you can’t miss Simone Veil. The city is filled with ‘Merci Simone’ posters, and recently, the…
ByAirbnb is getting blamed for Amsterdam’s housing crisis. So the city council is going to war against Airbnb
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a major European City in the midst of a housing crisis has started…
ByThe Netherlands has too many prisons, so this is what it’s doing with them
A decline in the prison population of the Netherlands, coupled with one of the lowest incarceration rates in Europe – almost…
ByThis chunk of American Suburbia is named after London’s tube stations for no apparent reason
It turns out that pound isn’t the only sterling worth watching if you’re a worldly-minded Brit. Sterling is a town…
ByAmsterdam’s council has helpfully explained that it only wants rich tourists in future
Amsterdam has a new resolution for 2017: care less. Between Christmas and the New Year – when everyone was still…
