Turning off the red lights: Entrepreneurial urban strategies in ‘De Wallen’ Amsterdam

Neuts, Bart; Devos, Tim; Dirckx, Toon

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.09.005

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“…The De Wallen district of Amsterdam is more infamously known as the Red Light District; it is an urban area that is identified as locally and internationally significant as one of the oldest venues for visible and legal urban prostitution. Although this area used to be actively promoted as such to enhance the global image of Amsterdam as a progressive city, it is now seen as an obstacle to the desired city image that is rendered in current marketing campaigns [21]. Its evoked image and its association with soft drug use and prostitution hinders the current city marketing efforts, which primarily focus on attracting upper-scale cultural tourists [22,23].…”

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From Landscape to Mindscape: Spatial Narration of Touristic Amsterdam

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Abstract:The cultural attributes of architecture in touristic cities are vital to city image building, city branding, and rebranding, as well as generating more economic profits for sustainable urban development, and protecting cultural sustainability. However, many studies on this theme focus on the singularity of architecture referring to its stylistic or morphological definitions, lacking attention to visitors' cultural experiences in the architectures. Considering the importance of personal experience involved in cultural activities as a process of spatial narration through which architecture makes sense to visitors and generates cultural values, the aim of this paper is to reveal the respective correlations between different types of architecture regarding the cultural experience it imparts and the non-positive dimensions of the city image. This research builds a categorization system of three cultural types of architecture, and designs a questionnaire to collect tourists' personal opinions concerning architectures and the city image of Amsterdam's waterfront in order to calculate such correlations statistically. The results associate architectures with 'tourism-oriented', 'present/process-based', and 'mass' cultural types with non-positive dimensions of city image, which leads to further discussions of 'authenticity', 'identity', and 'mass culture', suggesting the significance of urban cultural policies and local communities in terms of city rebranding.

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From Landscape to Mindscape: Spatial Narration of Touristic Amsterdam

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“…Other categorizations reveal similar phases in using World's Fairs as instruments for planning and executing major urban interventions (Mullin 1972: 2;Essex and Chalkley 2007). In terms of policy, both types are variously conceived as part of the entrepreneurial city agenda (Evans 2014), as catalysts for creating eventful cities (Richards and Palmer 2010), as vehicles for urban regeneration (Gold and Gold 2005;Essex and Chalkley 2007;, and as means for leveraging resources to rebrand the city or reinforce its credentials as a center of creativity (Landry and Bianchini 1995;Neuts et al 2014).…”

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

Meller

2018

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges.A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

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“…Unlike the violation of the AHOJ-G, the BIBOB allows the municipality to shut down a business even before the investigation is over. Some argue that the BIBOB has been used as an instrument for gentrification, mostly targeting cannabis retailers and brothels (e.g., Neuts et al, 2014;Barber, 2014 ).…”

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