Marineterrein Amsterdam Living Lab (MALL)
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The rare asset here is the paperwork, not the technology. A navy yard closed off for roughly 350 years is now one of the few Amsterdam sites where urban tech can be trialled in public space on a fast permit.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 8 more in Amsterdam · 🏘️ Smart districts guide · 🏛️ Governance projects
A former Dutch Navy yard sealed off from the city for roughly 350 years began opening to the public in 2015; in 2019 AMS Institute, Bureau Marineterrein, Amsterdam Smart City and NEMO Science Museum turned it into a permanent outdoor testbed — one of Amsterdam's few sites with a fast, low-threshold permit process for trialling urban tech directly in public space.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Marineterrein Amsterdam Living Lab (MALL)” — Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/amsterdam-marineterrein-lab/ (last verified 2026-07-20). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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