{"id":82407,"date":"2017-02-12T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=82407"},"modified":"2017-02-12T06:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:35:27","slug":"tomorrow-is-good-an-exhaust-free-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/tomorrow-is-good-an-exhaust-free-city\/","title":{"rendered":"[TOMORROW IS GOOD] An Exhaust Free City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is good.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four contributors<\/a> are \u2013 in addition to their \u2018normal\u2019 groundbreaking work \u2013 linked to the SingularityU The\u00a0Netherlands<\/a>, the organization that focuses on spreading knowledge about technologies that can provide solutions to the problems of our time. This Sunday, we have a stand-in.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Bart Brouwers<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early seventies, during a vacation in Denmark, my parents dragged me not only to Legoland (yes!), but also to the city of Odense (mwah!). They must have thought that every child just had to see the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. Well, not me. It was boring.\u00a0And frankly, this whole city of Odense didn’t strike me as very exciting.<\/p>\n

And yet, right now exactly this city is very high on my wish list. Here’s why: if there is one city in the world, which has incorporated the promotion of using\u00a0bicycles consistently into its policy, then it’s Odense. And indeed, this means that cars and trucks had to make way<\/a>.<\/p>\n