That City is Mine! Urban Ideal Images in Public Debates and City Plans, Amsterdam & Rotterdam 1945 - 1995

Preface - Chapter 1 Perception is Reality - Mainspring - Perceptions - Perceptions v. reality - Urban perceptions: urban images & urban ideal images - Differences and similarities between urban ideal images - Urban ideal images in public debates - The urban intellectual - The city planner - Variable/invariable urban ideal images - Notes - Chapter 2 Researching Urban Ideal Images - What? - Where? - When? - With whom? - How? - Controversial city debates - Methods for gathering empirical data - Analysing data - Describing data - Why? - Notes - Part I 1945-1960/65 - Introduction - Chapter 3 Rotterdam Basisplan - Provocation - Urban ideal images in the Basisplan debate - The urban ideal image of culturalists - The urban ideal image of progressists - The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies in Basisplan debate - The strategies of culturalists - The strategies of progressists - The strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on the final Basisplan - Notes - Chapter 4 Kaasjager - Provocation - Urban ideal images in the Kaasjager debate - The urban ideal image of culturalists - The urban ideal image of progressists - The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies in the Kaasjager debate - Strategies of culturalists - Strategies of progressists - Strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on the Nota Binnenstad - Notes - Conclusions Part I - Part II 1960/65-1980/85 - Introduction - Chapter 5 Rotterdam Rehabilitation & redevelopment - Provocation - Urban Ideal images - The urban ideal image of culturalists - The urban ideal image of progressists - The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies - The strategies of culturalists - The strategies of progressists - The strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - Notes - Chapter 6 The Amsterdam Metro - Provocation -Urban ideal images -The urban ideal image of culturalists -The urban ideal image of progressists - The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies - The strategies of culturalists - The strategies of progressists - The strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - Notes - Conclusions Part II - Part III 1980/85-1995 - Introduction - Chapter 7 Kop van Zuid - Provocation - Urban ideal images - The urban ideal image of culturalists - The urban ideal image of progressists -The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies - The strategies of culturalists - The strategies of progressists - The strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans - Notes - Chapter 8 IJ-oevers - Provocation - Urban ideal images - The urban ideal image of culturalists - The urban ideal image of progressists -The urban ideal image of city planners - Strategies - The strategies of culturalists - The strategies of progressists - The strategies of city planners - The influence of urban ideal images in the public debate on final city plans -Notes - Conclusions Part III - Chapter 9 Dedicated to the City's Future - Level 1 A Flourishing City - Level 2 A Forward-looking CBD or a Backward Centre -Level 3 Straight or Bendy, Feet or Wheels, Nuisance or Boredom...,That City is Yours! Notes, Nederlandse samenvatting (Dutch Summary).

Biography

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.