Resilience is an impor­tant top­ic in the Nether­lands. The low-lying parts of the coun­try, includ­ing Ams­ter­dam, must learn to cope with ris­ing sea lev­els and increas­ing rainfall. 

The city of Ams­ter­dam is there­fore not only stim­u­lat­ing projects to retain rain­wa­ter and unseal pub­lic spaces, but is also pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty by pub­lic trans­port and bicy­cle. This includes a large, new bicy­cle car park under a har­bour basin at the sta­tion, as well as a metro line that cre­ates a high-speed con­nec­tion across the city to Ams­ter­dam-Zuid. In the Frans Hals­bu­urt neigh­bour­hood of De Pijp, all park­ing spaces have been removed from the pub­lic space and pock­et parks and bicy­cle park­ing spaces have been cre­at­ed in their place. A few stops fur­ther on, in the Zuidas office dis­trict, you can see var­i­ous projects to unseal pub­lic spaces as well as spec­tac­u­lar new archi­tec­tur­al icons with a green concept.