Unconventional Coalitions in Amsterdam Noord

173 Pages·2004·23.47 MB·English

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Urban Catalyst at Amsterdam Noord
Milica Topalovic and Marc Neelen / Ana Dzokic (Stealth group)
B. van Dantzigstraat 27 / 3035 PX Rotterdam
tel. [phone] / fax.[phone]
e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
City Administration Amsterdam Noord
Rob Vooren, Con Vleugel, Ted Zwietering
Buikslotermeerplein 2000 / Postbus 37608 / 1030 BB Amsterdam
tel. [phone] / fax. [phone]
e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
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003 Introduction
005 Analysis WP_3
007 Aa_ Profiles and positions
_ participating actors
015 Ab_ NDSM operational fields
_overview of institutions
_process timeline
025 Ac_ North bank and emerging phenomena
Ac_0 _IJ banks – overview
Ac_1 _initiatives –
Panorama Noord > North Bank (masterplan area) > Cornelis Douw terrein
Ac_2 _emerging phenomena > transformations through temporary uses
039 Ad_ NDSM developmentin time
Ad_0 _NDSM prehistory
Ad_1 _Kinetisch Noord > beginnings
Ad_2 _data Sheet_organisation
_data Sheet_dates, meters and euros
_building_plans/sections
053 Ae_ Gentrification in Amsterdam
Ae_1 _Amsterdam Waterfront Finance Group
Ae_2 _example: Graan Silo developments
061 Af_ Transformation of the squaetting network
Af_1 _a short histry of the squatter / Provos
Af_2 _the IJ GUILD
Af_3 _the Breeding Places Fond
069 Ag_ Local mutations of planning
Ag_0.1 _‘bestemmings’ plan (structure plan]
Ag_0.2 _zoning
Ag_0.3 _notas
Ag_0.4 _rules and regulations
Ag_0.5 _initiatives
073 Ag _1 _flows of initiatives and interests
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077 Potentials wp_4
079 Pa_ Cultivated anarchy brings urban vitality
Pa_1 _what the mainstream needs
Pa_2 _what the substream brings
Pa_1+2 _cultural entrepreneurship
085 Pb_ Elements for the ‘NDSM planning model’
Pb_1 _triggers: breaking the deadlock
Pb_2 _management process
Pb_2.1 Noord Lonkt!
Pb_2.2 competition for creative entrepreneurship
Pb_3 _starting points
Pb_4 _implementation bodies and their development models
Pb_4.1 BV Durf
Pb_4.2 Kinetisch Noord
Pb_4.3 XXL Syndicate
095 Pc_ NDSM wharf by Kinetisch Noord
Pc_1 _use of the hall
Pc_2 _programs
Pc_3 _CASCO philosophy
Pc_4 structure: building CASCO and fixing CASCO
105 Pd_ Current section through the process
109 Pe_ Urban Genetics at NDSM site
Pe _1 left / right; top-down / bottom - up / big and small
Pe_2 codes – abstraction
113 Pf_ Coast model > North IJ bank
Pf_1 pioneering the North bank voids:
Pf_2 the coast scenario
Pf_3 prototypes

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Introduction
The relevance of temporary use in the particular context
of Amsterdam Noord, as we discovered during this
research, is that it gives rise to an alternative proposal for
city development. This different approach is gradually
shaping itself through unconventional coalitions between
so called ‘marginal’ players and the mainstream networks
in a fragile positioning and intense debate.
The opposing actors understand this matter as urgent for
developing the city in a more evolutive way - to create city
substance and city energy at the same time. In
Amsterdam, they found a mode to join and develop diffi-
cult restructuring areas.
In the framework of the Urban Catalyst project this
process can be seen as a specific case from which conclu-
sions can be drawn into the development of a strategic
tool possible to be used in different contexts.
On the scale of Amsterdam we understand the relevance
of this research not exclusively for the Northern part but
rather for the city as whole. On the city scale we frame
and observe the particular set of process that together stir
NDSM development.
By developing a certain methodology - to register, draw,
investigate - we want to extract and point out the bene-
ficial models that are the accumulation of knowledge and
experiment in the process. From here, we speculate about
possible futures for Amsterdam.
The aim of the research is to develop urban approach to
the city of Amsterdam as a whole, which goes beneath
historical perspective in which Amsterdam Noord is only a
remote part of the city. It could develop a symbiotic
model, which binds Amsterdam and Amsterdam Noord in
one entity.
This report is build up as an open
structure in which through the fol-
low-up phases certain parts will
gain more weight where necessary.
Report consists of two complemen-
tary parts. The first one - white
pages - contains conclusions of the
authors, while the second one - yel-
low pages - presents a compilation
of interviews conducted with some
of the participants of the process.
Interviews are edited in such a way
that they create a background and
give further information on each of
the chapters. This part has a layout
of a newspaper.
Striking statements from interviews
are used as motto in the beginning
of each chapter.
Next to interviews the report has
been based on a wide range of
other sources.
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The transformation process of an industrial area in the
northern district of Amsterdam is an exciting process in
which possibilities are open and anything can happen.
While the area itself might be a representative example
for restructuring of European cities, its Dutch context and
negotiation models seem to open up very specific poten-
tials and possibilities for shaping its new future.
In analysis, we focus on the re-development of the former
NDSM shipyard. This process is characterised by an unusu-
al anatomy; in the networks involved, in the negotiations
between them and in the field-of-action – the enormous
neglected area of the Noord, conceptually positioned just
next to the metropole.
We approach this process in a way that reveals the
specifics of the contrasting actors, and their actions and
involvement in the process, to draw a section through the
developments at the site and the forces that form it.
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