Dakpark Rotterdam
Rooftop park nine metres up on a shopping strip, with gardens, sheep, a water staircase and harbour views.
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This guide to the Dakpark in Rotterdam goes back to nineteen ninety-eight, when an old railway yard beside the fruit port fell out of use and two very different plans for it collided. You'll meet the port authority, a city council caught in the middle, and the residents of Bospolder and Tussendijken, a district with heavy industry and no green space at all. Best heard standing by the water staircase.
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