Here and elsewhere Rotterdam

Rotterdam -  Rotterdam used to be the biggest harbourcity in the world. It has been a transit city and a city in transit for decades. Hotel New York and Hotel Manhatten makes you think of Rotterdam as ‘I want to be another city’. As Rotterdams heart was bombed in the second worldwar, the city is still searching. Rotterdam as ‘the eternal promise’ makes the city very vivid at the same time. Rotterdam counts a lot of poor neighbourhoods. The ones with jobless workers of the former shipping industries and the ones with 90 % mostly jobless immigrants. It makes the political stands in Rotterdam the sharpest of the whole of the Netherlands. It makes people depressed but then again it is very vivid at the same time.
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab