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Centrum and Oud Zuid most intellectual

11 June 2006 – Zeeburg urgently needs a bookshop, writes alderman Dennis Straat (VVD) on his weblog. News from Amsterdam made some calculations, which show that De Baarsjes, Geuzenveld and Westerpark have even more reason to complain.

“For some time, my deepest wish has been a good and nice bookshop in Zeeburg. I still think that it is a pity that we do not have a quality bookshop in our district, and that we have to go to Centrum or Watergraafsmeer for that purpose”, Straat wrote on his weblog last Friday.

News from Amsterdam made some calculations. Excluding chain stores AKO and Bruna, the Centrum district has no less than sixty bookshops, followed by Oud Zuid, which has twenty. Zeeburg has two bookshops, but these are a bookshop / gift shop and a shop selling comic books.

De Baarsjes and Geuzenveld districts have no bookshop at all. The same applies to Westpoort, but this district has very few inhabitants.

 

book shops

highly educated

creative sector

Centrum

60

43037

11416

Oud Zuid

20

37663

4943

Zuidoost

8

15304

1759

ZuiderAmstel

7

21639

1026

Oost

7

22298

1868

Oud-West

5

13054

1418

Osdorp

4

6263

250

Noord

3

14980

1154

Slotervaart

2

10697

1384

Zeeburg

2

13518

1313

Bos en Lommer

1

4338

239

Westerpark

1

10410

1165

Geuzenveld

0

4498

145

De Baarsjes

0

7929

338

Source: Gouden Gids, O+S, News from Amsterdam

It may be expected that the number of bookshops will be higher in districts where many intellectuals live. The table gives the number of highly educated inhabitants, and the number of people working in the creative sector. This sector includes the arts, media and entertainment, and creative services.

The figures show that Centrum and Oud Zuid are the most intellectual districts. Relative to the number of highly educated or the number of creative workers, not only De Baarsjes and Geuzenveld but also Westerpark has few bookshops. To a lesser degree, Zeeburg and Slotervaart also have few bookshops relative to the number of intellectuals.

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