Bijlmermeer Blues

Back from The Continent, including a few days at the end in the Bijlmermeer (which we locals shorten to Bjilmer).  There are a few things to say...but no, there is too much.

It's not fair or exact, but it is also true that this song by Ry Cooder about the destruction of a neighborhood to make way for a stadium kept running through my head.



For a more reasoned response to this odd, inhuman, democratic, and very very engineered place, this podcast is excellent:

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