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The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

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  • Kimberley Kinder
  • University of Georgia Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9780820347943
  • 9 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches
  • 0.95 pounds
  • Social Science > Human Geography
  • English
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Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. In The Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around these concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform.

While market dynamics certainly contributed to the transformation of Amsterdam's shorelines, squatters, partiers, artists, historians, environmentalists, tourists, reporters, and government officials also played crucial roles in bringing waterscapes to life. Their interventions pulled water in new directions, connecting it to political discussions about affordable housing, cultural tolerance, climate change, and national identity. Over time, these political valences have become embedded in laws, norms, symbols, markets, and landscapes, bringing rich undercurrents of friction to urban shores. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures and anxieties.

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

Author Bio

Kimberley Kinder is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is also the Faculty Director for the cross-disciplinary Healthy Cities Certificate Program. Her research focuses on the social, cultural, and political aspects of urban landscapes.

Kinder is the author of two books, and she has a third book forthcoming. Her most recent book, DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), explores how residents in Detroit cope with market disinvestment and government contraction by taking charge of abandoned landscapes. Residents sweep public streets, board empty buildings, mow vacant lots, and maintain city parks. They use landscape props to promote neighborhood safety, street-level photographs to advance community interests, and murals and gardens to create landscapes of hope. With the City of Detroit significantly weakened by long-standing fiscal crises, these self-provisioned, spatial interventions are crucial in resident efforts to stabilize blocks and exert social control over their neighborhoods.

Kinder’s first book, The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam (University of Georgia Press, 2015), explores how active residents in Amsterdam deploy waterscapes when rallying around a variety of political concerns. Redeveloped waterfronts are trademark landscapes in many post-industrial cities, and the market logics underlying these investments often dominate scholarly and media debates. However, in Amsterdam, squatters, queers, artists, historians, environmentalists, climatologists, tourists, reporters, and cabinet officials also bring waterscapes to life. Their interventions pull water in new directions, connecting it to political discussions about affordable housing, cultural tolerance, climate change, and national identity.

Kinder’s third book, The Radical Bookstore: Counter Space for Social Movements (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), explores how activists use spatial agency for organizing. Activists need autonomous space for organizing, and these spaces are made, not found. In this book, I use examples from radical bookstores and infoshops to think through the constructive aspects of contentious placemaking. I ask how and why activists insert hubs of contentious politics into everyday landscapes of dissent. These durable hubs are not one-off demonstration sites. Instead, they persist 365 days a year between the spikes of public protest.

One of Kinder’s emerging research projects, Health and Wellness along the Detroit Riverfront, explores urban waterfronts and social justice from a health and wellness perspective. Urban waterfronts across the country are advertised as vibrant places to live, work, and play. However, many waterfronts are not accessible to people with limited incomes, including seniors, women, and people of color. Also, to be healthy and fulfilled, people also need access to transportation, education, employment, stress release, social connections, and civic engagement. From this holistic perspective, this research project asks residents — including residents whose perspectives might be overlooked and under-valued in other real estate contexts — how the wholistic redevelopment of Detroit's riverfront affects their health and wellness.

Kinder has a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Urban Design from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master of Science in Geography from the University of Oxford, and her PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

Source: University of Michigan 

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