Noorderbreedte

Illustration for Noorderbreedte accompanying a piece by Tjesse Riemersma. In the previous century, more than seventy percent of the Netherlands was turned upside down by land consolidation. A simple administrative exchange trick in which farmers exchanged small pieces of land for larger plots. This turned out to be the engine of a completely new agricultural culture, but was the prosperity it brought worth the ecological destruction?

You can read ‘Een boekhouding van het verkleden’ here.