Print Email Facebook Twitter Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified Title Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified: How Rotterdam’s Interwar Amusement Street, the Schiedamsedijk, Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself Author Baptist, V. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics) Contributor Blok, Gemma (editor) Oosterholt, Jan (editor) Date 2024 Abstract This chapter develops a layered analysis of the Schiedamsedijk, Rotterdam’s interwar amusement street. It links the street’s split socio-cultural character to that of port cities in general, and investigates this along the lines of a similar divide in perceptions of safety and security. Based on an historical bird’s-eye view of the pleasure area, the Schiedamsedijk’s criminal and cosmopolitan sides are discussed. Both of these maritime urban traits were neutralised when the Schiedamsedijk reinvented itself as a domestic tourist attraction in the late 1930s. Through visual sources, interchanges are foregrounded between contrasting internal and external perspectives on safety, which ultimately help to nuance and reframe the stereotypical characters and ambiguous nature traditionally ascribed to this historical environment of pleasure culture. Subject cosmopolitanisminterwar periodpleasureport cityRotterdamsafety To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e4491915-4e11-4518-aa31-67c1431a0109 DOI 10.5117/9789463720472_ch05 Publisher Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam ISBN 9789463720472 Source The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security: Imaginaries, Discourses and Philosophies that Shaped Modern Europe Bibliographical note 'The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security' was made possible by a grant from: Open Access Stimuleringsfonds; HERA project ‘Governing the Narcotic City. Imaginaries, Practices, Discourses and Consequences of Public Drug Use’; Faculty CW Open Universiteit Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2024 V. Baptist Files PDF 9789048555208.pdf 681.18 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e4491915-4e11-4518-aa31-67c1431a0109/datastream/OBJ/view