New underground city planned for Amsterdam
By Bruno Waterfield
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 09/02/2008
AMSTERDAM is to go underground as overcrowding and soaring land prices force planners to look beneath the city's famous canals for future urban development.
New underground city planned for Amsterdam
The canals will be drained to allow architects to build the underground city, which will reduce
the pressures of overcrowding and slash the cost of a parking space
Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £7.4 billion underground city providing one million square feet of underground retail, leisure and parking facilities.
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By Bruno Waterfield
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 09/02/2008
AMSTERDAM is to go underground as overcrowding and soaring land prices force planners to look beneath the city's famous canals for future urban development.
New underground city planned for Amsterdam
The canals will be drained to allow architects to build the underground city, which will reduce
the pressures of overcrowding and slash the cost of a parking space
Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £7.4 billion underground city providing one million square feet of underground retail, leisure and parking facilities.
The rest of the story and pictures can be found here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/09/wcanal109.xml#cooliris