Seeing the City
Nanke Verloo, Luca Bertolini (eds)
- Title
- That City is Mine!
- Subtitle
- Urban Ideal Images in Public Debates and City Plans, Amsterdam & Rotterdam 1945 - 1995
- Author
- Cordula Rooijendijk
- Price
- € 86,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789056293826
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 488
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 08 - 04 - 2005
- Dimensions
- 16 x 24 cm
- Series
- AUP Dissertation Series
- Category
- Modern History
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
Table of Contents - 6
Preface - 10
Chapter 1 Perception is Reality - 16
Mainspring - 16
Perceptions - 16
Perceptions v. reality - 18
Urban perceptions: urban images & urban ideal images - 19
Differences and similarities between urban ideal images - 20
Urban ideal images in public debates - 22
The urban intellectual - 23
The city planner - 24
Variable/invariable urban ideal images - 25
Notes - 27
Chapter 2 Researching Urban Ideal Images - 32
What? - 32
Where? - 33
When? - 34
With whom? - 34
How? - 35
Controversial city debates - 35
Methods for gathering empirical data - 36
Analysing data - 41
Describing data - 54
Why? - 55
Notes - 56
Part I 1945-1960/65 - 74
Introduction - 75
Chapter 3 Rotterdam Basisplan - 82
Provocation - 82
Urban ideal images in the Basisplan debate - 83
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 83
The urban ideal image of progressists - 86
The urban ideal image of city planners - 88
Strategies in Basisplan debate - 93
The strategies of culturalists - 93
The strategies of progressists - 95
The strategies of city planners - 96
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on the final Basisplan - 99
Notes - 100
Chapter 4 Kaasjager - 116
Provocation - 116
Urban ideal images in the Kaasjager debate - 116
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 116
The urban ideal image of progressists - 118
The urban ideal image of city planners - 119
Strategies in the Kaasjager debate - 121
Strategies of culturalists - 121
Strategies of progressists - 125
Strategies of city planners - 127
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on the Nota Binnenstad - 130
Notes - 134
Conclusions Part I - 148
Part II 1960/65-1980/85 - 160
Introduction - 161
Chapter 5 Rotterdam Rehabilitation & redevelopment - 168
Provocation - 168
Urban Ideal images - 168
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 169
The urban ideal image of progressists - 173
The urban ideal image of city planners - 178
Strategies - 183
The strategies of culturalists - 183
The strategies of progressists - 186
The strategies of city planners - 188
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - 193
Notes - 197
Chapter 6 The Amsterdam Metro - 224
Provocation - 224
Urban ideal images - 225
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 226
The urban ideal image of progressists - 231
The urban ideal image of city planners - 234
Strategies - 239
The strategies of culturalists - 239
The strategies of progressists - 245
The strategies of city planners - 248
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - 252
Notes - 258
Conclusions Part II - 302
Part III 1980/85-1995 - 318
Introduction - 319
Chapter 7 Kop van Zuid - 324
Provocation - 324
Urban ideal images - 325
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 325
The urban ideal image of progressists - 329
The urban ideal image of city planners - 335
Strategies - 340
The strategies of culturalists - 340
The strategies of progressists - 342
The strategies of city planners - 344
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - 350
Notes - 356
Chapter 8 IJ-oevers - 374
Provocation - 374
Urban ideal images - 375
The urban ideal image of culturalists - 376
The urban ideal image of progressists - 383
The urban ideal image of city planners - 387
Strategies - 393
The strategies of culturalists - 393
The strategies of progressists - 398
The strategies of city planners - 399
The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - 405
Notes - 410
Conclusions Part III - 444
Chapter 9 Dedicated to the City's Future - 458
Level 1 A Flourishing City - 459
Level 2 A Forward-looking CBD or a Backward Centre - 462
Level 3 Straight or Bendy, Feet or Wheels, Nuisance or Boredom... - 465
That City is Yours! - 477
Notes - 481
Nederlandse samenvatting (Dutch Summary) - 484
Cordula Rooijendijk
That City is Mine!
Urban Ideal Images in Public Debates and City Plans, Amsterdam & Rotterdam 1945 - 1995
This thesis is about urban ideal images. It is about dreams – not fictitious beliefs, but dreams that humankind can realize tomorrow. It is about images from intellectuals, pastry cooks, urban planners and firemen. About people who deeply care about their cities, about their hopes, frustrations, anger and optimism. They describe their ideals in city debates to gain support, and try to eliminate those with different urban ideal images. They grouse, cuddle, quarrel, adore allies and blacken enemies. But are they successful? Do people change their urban ideal images because of these discussions? Does the local planning council change their plans because they conflict with ideals of citizens? The answers can be found in this book.
Author
Cordula Rooijendijk
Cordula Rooijendijk (1973) studied urban geography and graduated in 2001 cum laude at the University of Amsterdam, with a thesis on ideal images of Amsterdam. She carried out her PhD research at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), under the supervision of Len de Klerk en Paul van de Laar. Together with the historians Geert Mak and Michiel Wagenaar, she has been teaching international students about Amsterdam’s history. She enjoys telling stories about the city, as she has done regularly in several newspapers, journals, and books.
