Zaandam town centre is being radically revamped on the basis of an urban development plan by Sjoerd Soeters. Soeters is reinstating the historical street layout, reconstructing an urban waterway and reintroducing atmosphere into the somewhat impersonal and dull town centre, employing magnified stylistic features of the historical Zaanse Schans village. The plan by Soeters incorporates a new hotel........
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