René K.@notjustbikes The last point, not thinking about roads, but thinking about a string of places stuck me a true, and I realise it is putting words in as an explanation of why I like riding trough Amsterdam better than my native suburb Zaanstad. In my more familiar but more car centric Zaanstad I navigate way more thinking about streets, while in Amsterdam way more about neighborhoods or landmarks I'm passing.
@notjustbikes don't get me wrong, Zaanstad has sense of place places and Amsterdam has areas with less sense of place. But overall it's pretty noticable, just outside Amsterdam, that even neighborhoods quite close to Zaandam centre were built in another more car centric time (60s and 70s), with less attention to the sense of place.