Rob Kitchin wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> I have been charged with running a fieldtrip to Amsterdam at the beginning
> of March. I am desperately trying to compile a list of suitable geographic
> accounts of the city and surrounds.
As you wish....here are the Amsterdam cycle routes. They are especially
interesting for geography/ urban studies/ planning/ architecture students.
The HTML version of the route list is at
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-list.html
See also the site with context and background
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-context.html
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Amsterdam Cycle Route 2:
Spaarndam/Velserbroek, heritage+suburban landscape.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-2.html
Ancient sea defences embedded in a peri-urban landscape where farming is
giving way to new housing and golf courses: a typical VINEX landscape, with
older settlements heritage-ised.
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Amsterdam Cycle Route 3:
dune villas, ruins, and infrastructure
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-3.html
The narrow strip of lands just behind the dunes has the oldest continuous
habitation: a few traces remain. The dunes are suburbanised since the 19-th
century, and cut through by the sea lock complex at IJmuiden into the North
Sea Canal.
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Amsterdam Cycle Route 5:
city cross-section, new nature, heritage core
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-5.html
Along an old tram route out of the city, through New Nature (a park), open
landscape beside the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, and the heritage core of fortified Weesp.
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Amsterdam Cycle Route 7:
Port, Westzaan and Zaan suburbs
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-7.html
Past the west port basins, across the North Sea Canal by ferry, through the
polder village of Westzaan, and back through a typical suburban development.
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Amsterdam Cycle Route 8:
Linear villages, historic reclamation, expanding satellite
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-8.html
Follows a linear settlement which starts inside the ring motorway, crosses one
of the great 17th century lake reclamation projects, into the historic core of
Purmerend, expanded as a satellite town in the 70's and now growing again -
and returns along a 19th-century ship canal.
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Amsterdam Urban Route: West
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/curb-west.html
A shorter cycle route in the urban area: a cross-section through western
Amsterdam, in roughly chronological order.
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Under construction, Amsterdam Cycle Route 1:
airport peri-urban fringe
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/cycle-1.html
The hot-spot urban growth landscape of the Zuidtangent (South Tangent) route,
with relicts of the 19th century land reclamation which preceded it, and the
older settlements around it.
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http://www.amsterdamfordummies.nl/transport.htm#cycling
list of bike rental shops, at the Amsterdam for Dummies site. This link is
intended as information, not as advertising. No endorsement of products or
services intended.
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more on Amsterdam.....
Brownfield gentrification
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/gasfab.html
Brownfield sites are underused urban areas, generally dating from the first
phase of industrialisation. In Europe that ranges from 1800-1914 in Britain,
1870-1940 in Germany, and 1920-1970 in much of eastern and southern Europe. In
the USA the term is used especially for contaminated sites. Changing
industrial technologies, and the shift to road transport, have made these
sites available for urban projects with negative effects. This comment takes a
former coal-gas plant in Amsterdam as an example
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Limiting Urban Futures
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/few.futures.html
All planning can be considered as an attempt to restrict possible futures.
Usually this is not stated explicitly. However, "futures scenarios" are
explicit rejections of other possible futures. As the year 2000 approaches,
many cities, regions and nations are preparing such scenarios. They have
become fashionable again, as they were in the 1960's. Often a small number of
alternative scenarios is presented. They indicate the range of futures
considered acceptable. In urban futures scenarios, the range of acceptable
future cities is made visible. "Acceptable", that is, to the people who
prepared the scenarios. That is usually the city or regional government:
sometimes, a private organisation funded by local elites. The Amsterdam study
TVA is used here as an example of how such future studies limit urban futures.
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and the newest site, on the mass demolition proposals now popular in the
Netherlands, and planned for western Amsterdam.
Urban cleansing and clearance
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/enschede.html
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En ook in het Nederlands worden onze wijze burgervaders door het slijk gehaald....
Toekomstvisie: elite en Amsterdam-Noord
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/tvn.html
De Toekomstvisie Amsterdam-Noord, ook bekend als Noordwaarts, lijkt een
sympatiek initiatief. Mensen worden uitgenodigd om te praten in groepen over
het stadsdeel in 2030, de politici praten mee, en er komt een visie op papier,
leidraad voor beleid. In werkelijkheid is het een strak geregisseerde vorm van
public-relations. De uitkomst staat vast - een neoliberale toekomstvisie in de
stijl van Tony Blair.
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