Wenn die Niederlande zehnmal so viele Einwohner hätten

ss: They are called intriguing scenarios, but they are just hypothetical scenarios. We have to take that into account, because the birth rate in the Netherlands is falling sharply.

There’s no denying it: the Netherlands is incredibly crowded. With nearly 18 million inhabitants.

if… the Netherlands had ten times its population? What if in the coming decades, we house not 18 million, but 180 million people?

There is simply no more room for private gardens in this overcrowded country. A forced tiny-house movement has taken place. The buildings are gigantic: towering flats with hundreds of floors

The Randstad, meanwhile, has developed into a contiguous megacity. What were once individual cities – Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam – is now a sprawling metropolis.