Here are a few fun facts about my awesome neighborhood, the triangle on the map. My building is the red line along the train tracks.
- It used to be an industrial zone but has been converted into a neighborhood with "sufficient green space"
- My building acts as a noise buffer for the railway and also a physical perimeter to the space
- Each building within the neighborhood has a "distinctive identity" (they had multiple architects)
- The area "dates back to the time of the Dutch East India Company"
- It has "the first playground in the Netherlands for workers' children" built in 1900
- It is car-free and full of families; most housing this close to the city center is only two-room apartments
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/The%20Funen%20Park
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_Funen_(Amsterdam)
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