De locatie van het Amsterdamse winkelbedrijf in de achttiende eeuw

Patterns of retail location in Amsterdam in the eighteenth century In this paper location theory and Nelson’s distinction between general, arterial and special accessibility is used to map and analyze the patterns of retail location in Amsterdam in the eighteenth century. In accordance with theory the main shopping streets were located in the city center, which was highly accessible to all residents and to consumers from the surrounding countryside and small cities. In the city center as well as along the main axes to markets and the city gates the retailing of shopping goods (textiles, consumer durables) was much more prominent than elsewhere in the city. In contrast, shops selling convenience goods (foodstuffs etc) were scattered all over the city. The correspondence of empirical data and location theory suggests that the urban government and institutions like guilds did not interfere with the location preferences of shopkeepers. An analysis of local acts and guild regulations corroborated this assumption. What did affect the location patterns of shops was history, or, to put it more precisely, the morphological and socio-economic structure of Amsterdam as it came about in the preceding centuries. This legacy of the past acted as an intermediary between general location principles and the implantation of shops in the urban landscape

Is there life outside the migrant network? German immigrants in 19th century Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration typology

Migratie, racisme en minderhede