In Amsterdam one could even speak of a 'twenty-year civic war', which lasted from 1965 until 1985. The residents of the Nieuwmarkt city-centre neighbourhood, squatters and anarchist Provos fought side by side for the same standpoints: self-government instead of bureaucracy, liveability rather than economic growth, preservation of existing buildings instead of demolition and new development, and the safeguarding of neighbourhood culture instead of making way for mass consumption.
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