Land use patterns in Amsterdam (AKA things I discovered when I was sick)

Below are some screenshots of Google Earth showing aerial views of Amsterdam. I looked at these when I was quarantined and still trying to follow the PUMA activity.

This first photo shows central Amsterdam. The blocks are narrow and relatively homogenous is every way except orientation, even when not limited in size by a canal. What little green is visible in this photo appears to mostly be in courtyards formed by boxes of buildings in between canals or as trees lining the streets along the canals and there is little in the way of visible public green space.
 This second photo shows a more suburban neighborhood just southwest of the first photo. immediately the amount of green jumps out, especially compares to the center of the city. The shal es of the building have become less rectangular and more square and while it’s changed dramatically from the inner city, the buildings are still quite homogeneous within the neighborhood. Orientation of the streets has also shifted to be very north-to-south and is far more consistent. This area no longer contains canals, yet has a lot more public green space visible.

This photo was taken just northeast of the first photo of central Amsterdam. The clear urban boundary marked by the highway in yellow is interesting to see, especially since Amsterdam has expanded in almost every other direction

This last photo can be used as a reference for the others and shows most of the city of Amsterdam. The central area with Amsterdam over t correspondía to the first photo, the name Randwijck can be seen in both the second photo and the bottom left of this photo for reference and the red icon in the upper right notes the center of the third photo.

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