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The Right to the Red Light City: Inhabiting a Contested Landscape Negotiating A Space Between Tourism, Community, and Commerce, and Asking the Big Question: Who Owns the City?

Figure 1. APK. “Crowds walking past window prostitution and other sex businesses along the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal in De Wallen.” Wikipedia. 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wallen. By Olga Hayes Amsterdam’s Red Light District, De Wallen, is one of Europe’s most contested urban heritage landscapes. It is simultaneously a…