West district photo What makes a city beautiful and pleasant to live in? Ask any Amsterdam resident what they would like to see changed in their city and the answer usually comes down to improving the quality of public space. In other words: less view of the street (cars, bicycles and scooters) and more quality greenery (trees and planting areas). …

Do you want to create additional beds, but there is not much space for it? Then you can place a mattress on the floor. Someone can sleep well on this, but it is by no means ideal. A mattress takes up a large part of the living space. That is why we can imagine that you are not waiting for …

The Beauty Phi Golden Quota is used in engineering, painting, music, math, architecture or archeology for business planning. Leonardo da Vinci used it to paint the Vitruvian Man and draw the ideal proportions of the man. For this, the distances between the different organs (nose, mouth, eyes and ears) are divided and the closer they are to the irrational number …

In recent years, De Ronde Venen has collaborated with 15 municipalities in Utrecht on the integral spatial perspective (PIR). This vision document describes the challenges facing the region until 2040 in the areas of housing, work, mobility, greenery, energy and health. The aim is to maintain and if possible improve the pleasant living and working environment. Ambitions to build 4,800 …

If GroenLinks continues to be part of the (new) coalition after the 2022 municipal elections and current mobility alderman Judith Bokhove sees a chance to stay in her post, older Rotterdam residents who have difficulty walking will have to slow down their visits to the city center will certainly forget. Bokhove is working to cut 1,200 parking spaces there, and …

At least 550 homes, a hotel and the Beurs metro station will be approached, according to the plan that the college of mayors and aldermen approved on Tuesday. The city council will later take a decision on the so-called memorandum of principles. Renovation Coolse Poort The De Coolse Poort office building (‘de Rode Kroot’) will be given new functions, while …

We hear less and less the magnificent nightingale singing.Image Sylvain Cordier / hemis.fr Since sound recordings have not been systematically made in fixed locations during these 25 years, researchers have developed a method to reconstruct the “soundscapes” of the past 25 years. They used “citizen science” sources, such as count data and sound recordings of individual birds (of about a …

LIVE – Journalist Mascha de Jong is present at the trial. Follow the case via his tweets at the bottom of this article (from around 10 a.m.). According to the prosecution, I. received a Mercedes worth 30,000 euros, a brand new kitchen for his house in Almere and sliding doors for his country house in France. In exchange, he would …

New: in addition to Science Today, now also Science Tonight. One minute of easy-to-digest science to brush your teeth. This time by answering the question: Why are all the seeds a different size? And this time, I’m talking about plants. Why is each seed a different size? The largest seed – weighing tens of kilograms and measuring about half a …

During his mission, where he took on the role of captain, the astronaut took many photos of the planet from all angles … including France. Occitania in the spotlight! After spending six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Thomas Pesquet is expected to return to Earth in early November. During his mission, where he took on the role of …