The rape of cities : the disastrous impact of urban renewal / Vincent van Rossem.

Main entry:

Rossem, Vincent van, author.

Title & Author:

The rape of cities : the disastrous impact of urban renewal / Vincent van Rossem.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Architectura & Natura, 2014.

Description:

47 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
"Speech given on the acceptance of the post of Professor of monuments and urban issues of the period since the nineteenth century, in particular the city of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam"--Book jacket.

Summary:

The advocates of urban renewal met their Waterloo in the Amsterdam Jordaan district. As recently as 1975, the Amsterdam city council made a serious proposal to demolish the Jordaan, but outraged district residents managed to scuttle the plan. In a structure which originally contained seven apartments, where at least 35 people lived, habits now four people. The district has changed entirely. This illustrates that new uses of a district in no way require demolition. The city's architectural stock is highly resilient and adaptable to changing uses. Not a single canal house is still being used in the same way it was in the seventeenth century. Semi-detached pairs of shops with upstairs flats in the Jordaan are now being converted into very attractive single-family homes. In Amsterdam in the 1970s, no one would have thought such a thing possible. But they could have known. Jane Jacobs's famous book about American cities, published in the early 1960s, chronicled how Boston had transformed itself into a trendy city by restoring its historic houses.

ISBN:

9789461400369
9461400365

Subject:

Urban renewal Netherlands Amsterdam History 20th century.
Urban policy Netherlands Amsterdam History 20th century.
Rénovation urbaine Pays-Bas Amsterdam Histoire 20e siècle.
Politique urbaine Pays-Bas Amsterdam Histoire 20e siècle.
Urban policy.
Urban renewal.
Stadtentwicklung
Jordaan (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Netherlands Amsterdam Jordaan.
Amsterdam

Form/genre:

Speeches (documents).
History.

Added entries:

Disastrous impact of urban renewal

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287548
Call No.: BIB 228676
Status: Available

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