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Urban Geographies (UvA)
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Amsterdam’s Canal District: Origins, Evolution, and Future Prospects
In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification.
This edited volume brings together 17 reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives, on the Canal District, the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. Thethe book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District’s historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies towards the future. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design. -
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Us up here and them down there
Despite the fact that social mix is an essential component of urban policies in Western Europe, it remains unclear at what spatial scale housing diversification programs may be most effective. When people with different backgrounds, household compositions, and lifestyles live in close proximity to one another, the emergence of close social ties is not always guaranteed. On the one hand, living in socially mixed environments may create bridges between residents of different social positions. On the other hand, it can lead to processes of social distancing and reproduce negative stereotypes. This article aims to provide insights into how these diverging experiences of social closeness or distance relate to place-specific features such as housing design, management practices, and the structure of local facilities. Lessons are drawn from a qualitative study on resident experiences of living with difference in a fine-grained mixed-tenure development in a newly built neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Tersteeg, A. K., & Pinkster, F. M. (2016). "Us up here and them down there": how design, management, and neighborhood facilities shape social distance in a mixed-tenure housing development. Urban Affairs Review, 52(5), 751-779.
DOI: (behind paywall) https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087415601221 [details] -
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Participation in neighbourhood regeneration
Despite the fact that resident participation has become central to the Dutch policy discourse on ‘good’ urban planning, it is unclear to what degree new participation mechanisms have created opportunities for residents to actually influence neighbourhood governance and contribute to the improvement of their neighbourhood. This paper explores how residents in the neighbourhood of Transvaal (Amsterdam) have been involved in regeneration since 1999. Although residents have been successful in putting everyday concerns about safety on the agenda and contributed to small-scale improvements of public space, they were unable to contribute to regeneration plans at the scale of the neighbourhood, in particular strategic decisions about state-led gentrification.
Teernstra, A. B., & Pinkster, F. M. (2016). Participation in neighbourhood regeneration: achievements of residents in a Dutch disadvantaged neighbourhood. Urban Research & Practice, 9(1), 56-79.
DOI: (behind paywall) https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2015.1045931 [details] -
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Beyond the urban–suburban dichotomy
uburbanisation has been a prevalent process of post-war, capitalist urban growth, leading to the majority of citizens in many advanced capitalist economies currently living in the suburbs. We are also witnessing, however, the reverse movement of the increasing return to the inner-city. This contradiction raises questions regarding contemporary urban growth and the socio-spatial production of the suburbs. This paper draws on the case of new town Almere in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam to cast light upon the changing suburban–urban relationship, by investigating the mobility to and from Almere for two decades through socio-economic, demographic data between 1990 and 2013. We demonstrate that Almere has developed from a typically suburban family community to a receiver of both international unmarried newcomers and families; its population has also become relatively poorer, yet the levels of upwards income mobility have remained stable. These trends emphasise alternative types of mobilities emerging in concert to the more typical suburban migration. The town’s transformation challenges the urban– suburban dichotomy, pointing to alternative explanations of contemporary urban growth and metropolitan integration.
Yannis Tzaninis & Willem Boterman (2018) Beyond the urban–suburban dichotomy, City, 22:1, 43-62,
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Narratives of neighbourhood change and loss of belonging in an urban garden village
In studies on the ties between residents and their residential surroundings, it is generally assumed that, over time, residents become more attached to their neighbourhood. However, as neighbourhoods change due to economic, political and social processes at higher spatial scales, so may residents’ relationship to them. A qualitative case study in a working-class neighbourhood in Amsterdam explored the circumstances under which residents come to experience a loss of belonging. In-depth interviews provide insight into the way in which residents perceive, experience and make sense of processes of neighbourhood change. Although a particular group of Villagers
express a strong sense of belonging to the neighbourhood, they perceive a process of neighbourhood decline, which they attribute to changing housing regimes, retrenchment of the local welfare state and shifting paradigms in neighbourhood governance. Consequently, the experienced disruption of neighbourhood life and local ways of ‘doing’ neighbourhood also result in feelings of discontent with governing institutions and the wider society. The study therefore draws attention to both the salience of the local in, and the relational nature of, neighbourhood belonging.Fenne M. Pinkster (2016) Narratives of neighbourhood change and loss
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Early adulthood housing transitions in Amsterdam
The housing context has a profound influence on how different generations within families negotiate dependence and independence. This article investigates the nature of intergenerational relations during early adulthood housing transitions. We consider an original dataset of qualitative interviews with young adults and their parents living in and around Amsterdam, where recent housing market liberalisation is challenging home‐leaving norms. We find that while strong norms regarding early home‐leaving and independence persist, market conditions prompt significant intergenerational support to sustain this “independence.” Support for renting and homeownership are part of different intergenerational dynamics. The first marks a process of easing into adulthood, whereas the latter solidifies new sets of relationships between fully adult generations supporting one another on equal terms. Despite professed individualization in Western European societies, the analysis of early adulthood housing transitions show that intergenerational dependencies can emerge in specific housing markets, requiring creative approaches to support young adult autonomy.
Druta O, Limpens A, Pinkster FM, Ronald R. Early adulthood housing transitions in Amsterdam: Understanding dependence and independence between generations. Popul Space Place. 2019; 25:e2196.
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‘We want to be there for everyone’
In the context of increasingly diverse urban populations in European cities, neighbourhood organizations are often seen as offering spaces of encounter that can foster a sense of belonging. As a result, they have formed an important element in urban policies on community identity and social cohesion. Yet everyday encounters in such micropublics may not necessarily be experienced as positive, and these spaces themselves might become sites of contestation and exclusion. Through an ethnographic study in a super-diverse neighbourhood in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this paper investigates how residents’ sense of belonging to the neighbourhood is informed by competing claims on a neighbourhood centre. Although envisioned as a collective space, contestations between different groups of residents over the centre as a functional and meaningful place illustrate how governing institutions shape informal politics of place through their own vision for the neighbourhood and their selective support of some initiatives over others.
Myrte S. Hoekstra & Fenne M. Pinkster (2019) ‘We want to be there for everyone’: imagined spaces of encounter and the politics of place in a super-diverse neighbourhood, Social & Cultural Geography, 20:2, 222-241.
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On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma
In Western Europe, a select number of “ghettos” are at the forefront of public anxieties about urban inequality and failed integration. These notorious neighbourhoods at the bottom of the moral spatial order are imagined as different and disconnected from the rest of the city. This paper examines how residents in Amsterdam Bijlmer, a peripheral social housing estate long portrayed as the Dutch ghetto, experience the symbolic denigration of their neighbourhood. Interviews show that all residents are highly aware of the negative racial, cultural and material stereotypes associated with their neighbourhood. However, these negative stereotypes are not equally felt: territorial stigma “sticks” more to some residents than others and substantial inequalities are observed in who carries the burden of renegotiating blemish of place. Differential engagement with stigma depends on how residents’ identity and the materiality of their surroundings intersect with stigmatising narratives of place.
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When the spell is broken: gentrification, urban tourism and privileged discontent in the Amsterdam canal district
Expansion of urban tourism in historic districts in European cities is putting increasing pressure on these areas as places to live. In Amsterdam, an ever-growing number of tourists visit the famous canal district, which also forms the home of a group of long-term, upper-middle-class residents. While such residents are generally depicted as instigators of urban transformation, in this case, they are on the receiving end. Bringing together the literature on the socio-spatial impact of tourism, belonging and the lived experience of place, this article explores the changing relationship between these established residents and their neighbourhood and provides insight into their growing sense of discontent and even powerlessness in the face of neighbourhood change.
Fenne M. Pinkster (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) & Willem R. Boterman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands). When the spell is broken: gentrification, urban tourism and privileged discontent in the Amsterdam canal district. In: Cultural geographies, Vol 24, Issue 3, pp. 457 - 472, First Published May 9, 2017. SAGE journals
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Stigma in the Bijlmer: The best-known neighbourhood in The Netherlands
Researchers Fenne Pinkster, Marijn Ferier and Myrte Hoekstra conducted a study into resident experiences the Bijlmer stigma. The Bijlmer is a deprived neighborhood, developed in the 60s-70s in the southeast of Amsterdam, which has long been labeled as a ‘Dutch ghetto’.
The researchers conducted semi‐structured interviews with residents’ sense of belonging in their neighbourhood on the one hand and how they cope with place stigma on the other hand. They find that the dominant representations of the Bijlmer as the Dutch ghetto function as an unescapable ‘haunting shadow’ that residents always have to deal with, even if they themselves experience the neighborhood quite differently.
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Evaluatie effecten “Rotterdamwet”
In juli 2006 werd, na een eerder kleinschaliger experiment, de Wet bijzondere maatregelen grootstedelijke problematiek (Wbmgp) ingevoerd in Rotterdam. In dit rapport brengen wij, in opdracht van het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties en naar aanleiding van een verzoek van de Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal, verschillende effecten van deze wet in kaart.
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Regiomonitor Groot Amsterdam
De Regiomonitor Groot Amsterdam is door de Universiteit van Amsterdam samen met de statistische bureaus van de acht grootste gemeenten in de regio Amsterdam ontwikkeld. Aan de basis van de Regiomonitor Groot Amsterdam staan de jaarlijkse gemeentelijke statistieken op het gebied van onder meer demografie, wonen, werken en incidenteel bewerkte administraties van derden van Amsterdam, Haarlem, Almere, Haarlemmermeer, Zaanstad, Purmerend, Amstelveen en Diemen
De Regiomonitor Groot Amsterdam wordt in stand gehouden door de Werkgroep Regiomonitor, waarin de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de deelnemende gemeenten vertegenwoordigd zijn. De monitor is sinds september 2014 voor iedereen vrij toegankelijk, maar is voor zeer gedetailleerde kaartbeelden in verband met de privacygevoeligheid van de informatie afgeschermd. Dan is een toegangscode nodig die kan worden aangevraagd via de Universiteit van Amsterdam of via één van de deelnemende gemeentelijke onderzoeksafdelingen.
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