The Bijlmer: A challenging city within a city, about the influence of restructuring on the social climate in the Bijlmer

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In this research focus will be on the Bijlmer, a post-war urban neighbourhood in the Southeastern part of Amsterdam. The demographics of the district are unique within the Netherlands. Only a quarter of its population is native Dutch. Contrary to problematic districts in other parts of the country where a lot of Morrocans and Turks live, the Bijlmer is the domain of other Africans and people from Surinam and the Antilles. The neighbourhood has undergone a big restructuring process between 1995 and 2011. The question is whether this physical change has lead to changes in the social climate. As goes from that urban restructuring and social climate will be key terms in the theoretical framework.\n\nTo answer the research question, first of all the history of the neighbourhood has been reviewed. Due to various reasons the socio-economic situation of the district had become so bad, that policy makers saw massive physical changes as the only solution in 1992. Unsafety, vacancies, crime, (dru

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