Unintended ripples: Amsterdam housing to Argentina exports to US beef
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Doing the boat tour of Amsterdam via the canal system is one of the few touristy things that is exactly as idyllic as it looks on Instagram. The architecture, the design, the city's history, driven by the oldest corporation in Europe, the Dutch East India Trading Company, founded in 1602 — it’s all fabulous.
And there’s an architectural phenomenon unique to Amsterdam: narrow, skinny houses mixed in amongst wider ones.
The narrowest of the narrow houses are only 8-10 feet wide.
Why is that, and what could it possibly have to do with agriculture?