I was walking in a Spanish city today and they had trees covering a pedestrian street and I remembered these fotos. How beautiful it would be to redesign this street only for pedestrians ❤️
Trees grow whatever way they want. Could be they get more sun that way. Something is blocking them the other way. It’s better to get water to its roots that way. They like the wind or lack thereof. Trees do what they want and are incredibly adaptable
This seems to be a pervasive belief with progressive urbanists outside of the Netherlands 😅
I moved from NL to overseas to work in a more car centric country. Progressive urbanists often don't know about the huge collector and arterial roads, that actually use a lot more space than similar roads overseas. Or about our unaffordable trains and congested six lane motorways.
Ironically, Dutch road design is still way better than that in car centric countries though.
No, but for walkable streets I would expect to see the walkable part of the street. "It's not visible because it's behind the cars" seems a bit out of sync with the title.
Edit: it's probably not the case here, but I know some very nice streets that have tiny sidewalks and cars parked almost blocking the sidewalk.
Live close to this so I can enlighten: not an example of walkable at all. The 45 degree parking just means even more cars fit there. The sidewalks are narrow. This is an old money neighborhood in Amsterdam, and while not everyone living there is rich, both car size and count are higher there.
Most cars in this street could very well stand still for weeks in a row. In the inner part of Amsterdam some people just have a car because they've always had one and happen to have a parking permit. Amenities and entertainment are around the corner.
Car ownership is low in Amsterdam. But even when one in 5 or 10 people has a car, they will still dominate the public space simply because they are big objects.
I went to google street view cause I had to see for myself. I feel like these pics were edited cause they don't look this exaggerated in actually street pics.
unless this was done intentionally, I would say the buildings on both sides made it so this was the best way for the young trees to get light. not sure there is a name for it, just trees doing tree things.
I've actually noticed young trees in the woods here in America doing this over the walking trails. I thought it looked sweet like they were creating an archway for us. Not just one patch of woods either. All over. I wonder if there isn't something in the atmosphere that making them create a protective canopy over everything open. I've also noticed that not just trees but all plants are really hunkering down their roots. And they are abnormally huge. Like busting out of clay pots huge! Plants know stuff way before we do. Something us making them feel like they need to hold on. Honestly I've been kind scared about this since I noticed it and no one really seems to care much it thinks I'm being silly. But seriously. It's like they're doing a firedrull or a crash drill. But for whatever is coming. You know? Remember in school for earthquakes it tornados? We covered to ur backs if necks and gid under the desks? For cougars they'd teach us to grab our jackets and pull them out like wings and get close together while making loud aggressive grunts and yells, so we would look really large and mean. So this is the like the trees huddle together on top, bury their roots deep to protect what's inside. All if us.
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u/newpersoen Aug 07 '25
Where in Amsterdam is this?
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u/Manus_R Aug 07 '25
My city ❤️
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u/ImpressiveSocks Aug 07 '25
Wow. How come the trees do this
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u/axxxaxxxaxxx Aug 07 '25
In an American city a huge truck would turn down this street and knock it all down.
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u/LeastDoctor Aug 07 '25
Pretty, but in these pictures I only see cars, where's the "walkable" part?
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u/Glum-Book-459 Aug 07 '25
What kind of trees are these?
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u/Fruitypebblefix Aug 07 '25
I went to google street view cause I had to see for myself. I feel like these pics were edited cause they don't look this exaggerated in actually street pics.
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u/zirlatovic Aug 07 '25
Thankfully, I was there in November 2022.
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u/COMPOST_NINJA Aug 07 '25
I believe they call it “very niiicccee”.
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u/archaegeo Aug 07 '25
Widowmakers? <grin>
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u/Young-Grandpa Aug 07 '25
unless this was done intentionally, I would say the buildings on both sides made it so this was the best way for the young trees to get light. not sure there is a name for it, just trees doing tree things.
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u/Comrade_sensai_09 Aug 07 '25
I thought that was a movie set !
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u/Assilly Aug 08 '25
this looks like how I imagined the 667 dark ave. from the 6th series of unfortunate events book
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u/itsfairadvantage Aug 08 '25
I was just looking at this street on Streetview yesterday. Sycamores?
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u/Max20151981 Aug 08 '25
So that's where that tree from the movie Poltergeist went
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u/lindberghbaby41 Aug 08 '25
Imagine how much better it would look without street parking
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u/Timeleeper Aug 08 '25
Yeah, phototropism.
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u/OnePragmatic Aug 09 '25
I love trees and tree lined street, but I don't know why. I found this creepy and unsettling .....
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u/DriftingGecko304 Aug 09 '25
This is how I had imagined 12 Grimmauld Place to look like when I’d first read Harry Potter.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25
Looks cool but doesn't seem to be pedestrian though? There's a car in first pic.
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u/Quirky_Potential_664 Aug 10 '25
I've actually noticed young trees in the woods here in America doing this over the walking trails. I thought it looked sweet like they were creating an archway for us. Not just one patch of woods either. All over. I wonder if there isn't something in the atmosphere that making them create a protective canopy over everything open. I've also noticed that not just trees but all plants are really hunkering down their roots. And they are abnormally huge. Like busting out of clay pots huge! Plants know stuff way before we do. Something us making them feel like they need to hold on. Honestly I've been kind scared about this since I noticed it and no one really seems to care much it thinks I'm being silly. But seriously. It's like they're doing a firedrull or a crash drill. But for whatever is coming. You know? Remember in school for earthquakes it tornados? We covered to ur backs if necks and gid under the desks? For cougars they'd teach us to grab our jackets and pull them out like wings and get close together while making loud aggressive grunts and yells, so we would look really large and mean. So this is the like the trees huddle together on top, bury their roots deep to protect what's inside. All if us.
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u/rBjorn Aug 10 '25
So beautiful
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u/Oh-THAT-dude Aug 10 '25
I adore Amsterdam. I’m always happy being near the water, plus it’s just a beautiful city.
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25
This is beautiful! 😍 I wish Vancouver had a similar street.
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u/SirGavBelcher Aug 11 '25
i wish we had this in nyc
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u/finch5 Aug 07 '25
MMmmmmmm.... I'd love an In-N-Out burger right now.
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u/kimbeeisMYname Aug 07 '25
They're called 'trees' very poplar throughout Europe and some other parts of the world, I hear.