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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
01. Streets Aren’t Set in Stone
Authors : Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett
Published in: Building the Cycling City
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
Few contemporary cities have endured the trauma of having their entire urban fabric erased overnight, but that was precisely what befell Rotterdam on May 14, 1940. In an ultimately effective attempt to shock the Dutch government into surrender at the onset of the Second World War, a ninety-plane wing of the Luftwaffe, the feared German air force, bombarded the city with 87 metric tons (96 US tons) of explosives, tragically killing nearly 1,000 residents, making another 85,000 homeless, and fully leveling all but 12 buildings within the 600-acre city center.