So here we are. Encouraged by Lil I might as well start this project today. Putting it off won't help as much as I'm inclined to believe. Even though it is much too late here to be putting up a piece of text, it needs to get done.
Wait - how rude of me, to start off without introducing myself! Veen's the name, and this blog will be a hopefully coherent collection of spatial, geographic and otherwise interesting pieces. I'm an urban planning student in the Netherlands. You might have heard of the place. Common symptoms of discovering the Netherlands are reactions like "there's a thing west of Germany?!" or "isn't that where my cheese/flowers/weed/windmills come from?".
Stereotypes aside, for spatial questions it is unquestionably interesting country to live in. The 16,9 million people live on an area smaller than Massachusetts, together with even more bikes and cows. Forty percent of the land is under sea level, hence the name: nether is an archaic word for low. It has two of the most important transport hubs in the world, being Rotterdam's enormous harbor, the biggest in the world, and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, the 4th busiest airport in Europe. Enough to talk.
But more on those details in further blogs. Urban planning and geography touches on nearly every other field, from psychology to economics and back. I'll attempt to give some meaning to topics otherwise unnoticed, opening your eyes to the world around you. Asking the question 'where?' is just as interesting as 'why', 'how' and 'is the coffee done'. Well, it's done so I'm gonna wrap this up. Hope to see you around!
