De Kolenkit (Amsterdam)

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Kolenkit Neighbourhood (Dutch: Kolenkitbuurt) is an area in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The name comes from a church that has a tower in the form of a coal scuttle. New houses will be built and existing ones will be renewed.
The Kolenkit District is an ´Attention neighbourhood´(aandachtswijk), some years ago called Problem neighbourhood. Because of the negative association with the word ´problem´ a more positive term is used anno 2009. In France: zones urbaines sensibles ("sensitive urban areas") and quartiers dits sensibles ("neighbourhoods deemed sensitive").

There exists a list of 140 Attention-areas in the Netherlands, from which Minister Vogelaar, the Minister of Housing, Urban Areas and Integration, made (2007) a selection of 40 special attention areas. These can be seen as the subtop of attention areas, because the 7th of February 2009 RTL Nieuws published a list: the 'Top 20 probleembuurten van Nederland'. There are eight in Rotterdam, two in Amsterdam, two in Den Haag, two in Utrecht en in diverse other towns. It is a list made by the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) that tried to prevent the publication of the list, because of its supposed -extra- stigmatizising effect.
In the Dutch Wikipedia-version of Slums, (Sloppenwijk): problem or attention areas must not be confused with slums, because(cit.): ...there are no slums in the Netherlands(...).
There is not only an analysis but also a plan (2009) that uses positive terminology in the title: ‘Strenght-areas: From Attention-area towards Strenght-area (Krachtwijken: Van Aandachtswijk naar Krachtwijk’).


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolenkit_District
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