Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Poort
By Dicky Brand
Low-key civic flex: a granite slab in the pavement quietly brags that the Van Boetzelaerplein glow-up was a community-and-city co-production, delivered May 2005. Basically Amsterdam's version of a plaque-drop mic.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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