Kolenkit District
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The Kolenkit District in Amsterdam
Kolenkit District (Dutch: Kolenkitbuurt) is a neighbourhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 2009 Eberhard van der Laan, the Minister of Housing, referred to the neighborhood as the worst in his "40 problem neighbourhoods" list.[1]
Cascoland, a small international network of artists, architects and designers formed by Dutch community artists Fiona Bell and Roel Schoenmakers, won a tender to start a process of empowerment in the Kolenkitbuurt. Since 2010 they organised playful activities and created a labyrinth of fences and four mobile hen houses which served as a meeting place, helping residents to initiate and manage their own projects in an urban revival process. [2]
References
- ↑ "Most problematic Dutch neighbourhoods made public." Expatica. 26 February 2009.
- ↑ "How art and chickens revived Amsterdam's most unloved district", The Guardian, 19 May 2014.
External links
- Kolenkitbuurt (Dutch)
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Coordinates: 52°22′43″N 4°50′29″E / 52.37861°N 4.84139°E
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