Amsterdam and resistance hotspot the Jordaan
In the early 17th century, the Jordaan district found itself enveloped by Amsterdam as the city underwent urban expansion. This 1920 report takes stock of the (poor) housing quality, the density of habitation and the (widespread) absence of water pipes and toilets.
This report strongly conveyed the enormity of the sanitation problem, and suggests razing the neighborhood as the only solution. Yet the neighborhood, despite its poor conditions, displayed a remarkable resilience that defied the proposed ‘control’ over them.
Gemeentelijken Woningdienst Amsterdam, De Jordaan (quarter IIB) in 1917, Amsterdam 1920, in: Het technisch woningonderzoek en de systematische parcelbeschrijving van Amsterdam, 1e deel: De Jordaan; met aanduiding kwaliteit woningvoorraad. Coll. S/T V.788, 28.5 x 108.5 cm.
