Amsterdam Magazine no 4 - December 2010

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FEATURED

What lies

beneath Amsterdam

?

We’re going deeper underground...

When you think of Amsterdam, you think of water. It has always been that way. A thousand years ago, the area now occupied by the city consisted of little more than swamps and peatland. Wooden poles were famously used to support its cultivation. But what lies beneath the city’s weak surface? > By Mike Peek

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