Smooth Amsterdam
What happens when the city becomes 'too perfect'?
A perfectly curated “clean girl” itinerary: riding a VanMoof S6 to hunt down the next viral, fusion satellite dishes while moving carefully between selected vintage stores and stainless steel aesthetic cafés. In the city, we are where we go: neighbourhoods, cafes, stores, they all shape our identities. Yet in today’s metropolises, all that once was complex, spontaneous, and experimental in now seems smoothed into a comfortable, consumable surface. As author René Boer has coined it, we are increasingly living in the “smooth city”.