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City marketing could easily degenerate into a ‘flashy’ pay-off<br />

or a ‘catchy’ logo, which doesn’t guaranteea long-term<br />

approach. City marketing must be linked to the city’s sociocultural,<br />

economic and physical planning policy such as for<br />

example has been set down in the programme of the board<br />

of mayor and aldermen for<br />

2002-2006, with its accompanying<br />

elaboration in policy<br />

documents such as Hermez<br />

on the economy of Amsterdam<br />

2004-2008, the Arts<br />

plan 2005-2008, the Structure<br />

plan Amsterdam,<br />

Choosing for Urbanisation<br />

(2003-2010), the Social Structure<br />

plan 2004–2015, the<br />

Memorandum Topsport<br />

2003-2010 and the Action<br />

plan Large City Policy<br />

2002–2009 and strategic<br />

plans of the department of<br />

Infrastructure, Traffic and<br />

Transport. The Amsterdam<br />

programmes also contain a<br />

number of activities aimed at<br />

improving the living and<br />

social climate in areas such<br />

as security, accessibility,<br />

healthcare, education and<br />

social control. Obviously<br />

these activities contribute to<br />

a growing positive city<br />

image.<br />

The cooperation between<br />

content experts in the various<br />

policy areas and the<br />

communication and marketing<br />

specialists of Amsterdam<br />

is key to the Amsterdam<br />

approach to city marketing.<br />

This approach is building a<br />

Amsterdam, I know her.<br />

sustainable relationship<br />

between content, policy and marketing or in old-fashioned<br />

terms: product, place, promotion and personnel. This<br />

approach thereby does justice to the Amsterdam culture and<br />

structure; there are cities that are more centralised and operate<br />

in a more top-down fashion. The disadvantages of such<br />

top-down operations are that there is far less use of the creativity<br />

in the city, areas of the city and their services and in<br />

addition marketing operates to a different score from content.<br />

The city has set up a policy framework for city marketing at<br />

the start of 2004 in which they detailed their part in the city<br />

marketing of Amsterdam. This policy framework is also the<br />

input to the content from the City of Amsterdam in the policy<br />

of Amsterdam Partners.<br />

“I know her streets of course. I know her streets like the veins in my<br />

hand. I have memo-rized those streets that lead me away from her<br />

while also drawing me back to her, her tenuous concrete, cobblestone<br />

and tarmac arms that reach out with opening fingers: Overtoom,<br />

Wibautstraat, Van Hallstraat and the bend of the Haarlemmerweg<br />

where Ge-rard and Karel van het Reve were born; also that<br />

windswept vista that passes behind the Central Station heading<br />

towards the Piet Hein Tunnel or the Middenweg; then there’s the<br />

Willemsparkweg, the Amstelveenseweg past the Olympisch Stadion<br />

and the Rijnstraat. The streets of Amsterdam that I really love<br />

are the streets that allow me to go elsewhere but still allow me the<br />

chance to turn around, turn back and return to her.<br />

The smell of her highways, direct contact.<br />

Coming from Utrecht, near Vinkeveen, I can see the form of the<br />

Rembrandttoren jutting out, vague and grey above the horizon. At<br />

night a light flickers at the top of it. Coming from Rotterdam and<br />

The Hague, you pass Schiphol Airport, where the Netherlands is<br />

momentarily an international no-man’s land; the only difference is<br />

Amsterdam in the dis-tance with the elegant modesty of her skyline.<br />

Coming from the north, approaching from Purmerend, you are<br />

clutched and confronted by the powerful, broad motorway that<br />

splits into the northern and western ring roads, including the Coentunnel.<br />

After this there looms the high, steaming smokestacks of the<br />

Hemcentrale, promptly followed by the towers of the Belastingdienst.<br />

All these roads, all these routes, they let me come and go.<br />

Martin Bril uit / from I <strong>amsterdam</strong>, portrait of a city.<br />

City marketing kan snel verworden tot een ‘flashy’ pay off<br />

of een ‘catchy’ beeldmerk. Dat garandeert geen duurzame<br />

aanpak. City marketing is onlosmakelijk verbonden met het<br />

sociaal-culturele, economische en fysiek ruimtelijke beleid van<br />

de gemeente, zoals dat bijvoorbeeld is vastgelegd in het Program<br />

Akkoord van het college<br />

van burgemeester en<br />

wethouders voor 2002-2006,<br />

met bijbehorende uitwerking<br />

in beleidsnota’s als Hermez<br />

over de economie van<br />

Amsterdam 2004-2008, het<br />

Kunstenplan 2005-2008, het<br />

Structuurplan Amsterdam,<br />

Kiezen voor Stedelijkheid<br />

(2003-2010), het Sociale<br />

Structuurplan 2004-2015, de<br />

Nota Topsport 2003-2010,<br />

het Actieplan Grote Stedenbeleid<br />

2002-2009 en de strategische<br />

toekomstplannen<br />

van de dienst Infrastructuur,<br />

Verkeer en Vervoer. Daarnaast<br />

bevatten de Amsterdamse<br />

programma’s ook tal<br />

van acties die gericht zijn op<br />

het verbeteren van het woonen<br />

leefklimaat, op gebieden<br />

veiligheid, bereikbaarheid,<br />

zorg, onderwijs, sociale maatregelen.<br />

Vanzelfsprekend dragen<br />

deze acties in grote mate<br />

bij aan een positiever imago<br />

van Amsterdam.<br />

De samenwerking tussen<br />

inhoudelijk deskundigen op<br />

de beleidsterreinen en de<br />

communicatie- en marketingspecialisten<br />

van Amsterdam<br />

is kenmerkend voor de<br />

Amsterdamse aanpak van city<br />

marketing. Deze aanpak legt<br />

een duurzame verbinding tussen inhoud, beleid en marketing<br />

of in ouderwetse termen: product, plaats, promotie en personeel.<br />

Deze aanpak doet daarmee recht aan de Amsterdamse<br />

cultuur en structuur; er zijn steden die meer gecentraliseerd<br />

en top down werken. Nadelen van top down werken: er<br />

wordt veel minder gebruik gemaakt van de creativiteit in de<br />

stad, de stadsdelen en de diensten en daarnaast zingt de<br />

marketing “los” van de inhoud.<br />

De gemeente heeft begin 2004 een beleidskader city marketing<br />

opgesteld waarin zij haar aandeel in de city marketing<br />

van Amsterdam concretiseert. Het beleidskader is tevens de<br />

inhoudelijke inbreng van de gemeente Amsterdam in het<br />

beleid van Amsterdam Partners.<br />

38 The making of the city marketing of Amsterdam I <strong>amsterdam</strong>

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