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They say “We can’t do that. We’re not Amsterdam.” You respond “Amsterdam wasn’t always like that either,” showing before & after transformations illustrating that cities we admire made CHOICES. They make more tired excuses. (1e van der Helststraat, 1978 & 2005 HT @fietsprofessor)
WATCH: Amsterdam is removing 10,000+ parking spaces for cars in their centre city, to make more room for more people-places, walking, & biking. This great @Streetfilms video explains why & how.

Just more evidence that #Amsterdam wasn’t “always this way.”
“A lot of Dutch cities made mistakes. In #Utrecht, they paved over canals. So their status as a cycling nation wasn’t always a given. It took a lot of hard work, a certain degree of stubbornness, and forward-thinking politicians to get where they are.”
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Paris Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo is championing “the quarter hour city,” where Parisians can get everything they need within 15 minutes. It means rethinking a LOT, even in a city like #Paris, including street design. Watch this via @ParisEnCommun @CarlosMorenoFr
What does a “quarter hour city” mean? A #Paris that’s even more dense, mixed & connected. How? Wider sidewalks. New 100% bike streets. School yards become weekend gardens. Intersections reinvented as neighborhood squares. Car parking converted into bike parking. And MUCH more.
“The 15-minute city would offer quality of life within short distances. The denser cities of the near future—& not just #Paris—will require turning streets into spaces of carbon-free mobility by walking or cycling, & reinventing new hyper-proximities.” forbes.com/sites/carltonr…
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I hear it was the largest individual #climateCrisis protest in history. Any city wish to challenge that? Regardless, 500,000+ people in #Montreal today for #ClimateStrike makes a POWERFUL statement that we’ve reached a real turning point toward #ClimateAction! Via @GretaThunberg
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This is one of the longest hashtags I’ve tried, and maybe the most challenging idea, but here goes — what if we showed all the AMAZING THINGS WE LOVE IN CITIES that could physically fit inside a shopping mall or power centre parking lot, using hashtag #LookWhatFitsInAParkingLot!
I really didn’t think there would be very interesting responses to this attempted hashtag #LookWhatFitsInAparkingLot. Boy was I wrong. Well done, Tweeps, very cool.
Which example of #LookWhatFitsInAParkingLot do you like best to far? Look through all the great responses to the first tweet in this thread, & favourite or retweet the best examples. The one with the most favourites & retweets by the end of the day tomorrow wins bragging rights!
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Ich verstehe absolut die Tränen. Ich verstehe die Emotionen.
Aber ich bitte euch alle: Gebt ihnen nicht die Tränen, gebt ihnen die Wut.
Die Wut, die nicht mit einem empörten tweet endet und sich auf heute beschränkt sondern eine, die sie spüren. Langfristig.
Ohne euch werden wir es nicht schaffen. Der Druck von außen muss anhalten & darf sich nicht auf heutigen & morgigen Tag beschränken „Hey, ist doch nicht so schlimm wie gedacht“ & mit Gewöhnung zur Normalisierung führen.
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Despite being on the wrong side of 40s the man had an enviable crown of hair on his head with hardly a bald patch.

A dash of his favorite oil, a few minutes of scalp massage, his large comb for his unique hairstyle, and he felt that the day would be awesome.

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The two babus looked at his well-set hair and sighed. "You have much more than what you need, Mr. Keshav."
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Modi has copied Adolf Hitler
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Modi is our PM, not Hitler
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Today my article ‘Al de swarten die hier ter stede comen’ - about an Afro-Atlantic community in seventeenth century Amsterdam - was published #openaccess in @_tseg. The article is in Dutch, so I’ll do a short introduction in #thread here. tseg.nl/articles/abstr… #twitterhistorian
From the moment the Dutch became active in the Atlantic world, people of African descent came to Amsterdam. Their presence is evident from baptismal and marriage registers and from seventeenth-century notarial deeds.
The earliest marriage of an African in Amsterdam that I have encountered was already at the end of the sixteenth century. On January 2, 1593 the 29-year-old Bastiaan Pietersz of ‘Maniconge in Afryken’ and Trijntje Pieters from Amsterdam registered their marriage.
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