Lijnbaan
Car-free shopping promenade from the postwar rebuild, lined with low shops under crossing canopies.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam starts on the October day in nineteen fifty-three when a new kind of street opened on ground the bombing of May nineteen forty had cleared. You'll meet the architects Jo van den Broek and Jaap Bakema, and the doubtful shopkeepers who had to be talked into a street without cars. Best heard standing under one of the canopies that cross the street at a junction.
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