Participatory approaches and urban development: A case study of Amsterdam

• Thesis title in Czech: Participativní přístupy a městský rozvoj. Případová studie z Amsterdamu.
• Thesis title in English: Participatory approaches and urban development: A case study of Amsterdam
• Key words: městský rozvoj|Strategický plán rozvoje|Arsteinin žebříček učasti"|účast veřejnosti|Amsterdam|čtvrť Nieuw-West
• English key words: urban development|urban planning|Arnstein’s ladder of participation|public participation|Amsterdam|Nieuw-West district
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2019/2020
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of General History (21-USD)
• Supervisor: Mgr. Linda Kovářová, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 18.07.2020
• Date of assignment: 22.12.2020
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 23.02.2021
• Date and time of defence: 09.09.2021 11:00
• Date of electronic submission: 16.08.2021
• Date of proceeded defence: 09.09.2021
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Ing. arch. Eva Špačková, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The city of Amsterdam represents an interesting context for cultural heritage research in many aspects: built on water, a UNESCO’s World Heritage site, multi-cultural and ethnically diverse, and with brilliant hydraulics, water engineering, land design and planning. With its economic boom in its golden age in the 17th century, the history of Amsterdam’s urban development is unique, and municipal strategies have been made in creating an egalitarian city. In the Twentieth century, the outcome of Amsterdam’s economic progress was the establishment of the offices for many international corporations, and therefore, increase of its population from diverse nationalities and ethnic groups. With about half of its population of 820,000 being non-Dutch, Amsterdam has become one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities, such as New York, but one third of its size. Amsterdam is a medium-sized city in comparison to many metropolitan or megacities. Statistics show a steady 11,000 annual addition to the population of Amsterdam. Such a population would require housing, and the municipality has planned the building of housing projects and development strategies for the city’s 2040 vision. But how the housing sector works and how the community enters the game? How the municipality plans to add other facilities to the residential areas? In such a context, this research has chosen some newly built projects as case study to monitor how the constructors and municipality communicate and share the projects with the Amsterdammers. To answer the research questions, participatory planning is considered as a tool and participatory action research (PAR) methodology would be studied in these projects.

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