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Sex workers, architects oppose relocation plans for Amsterdam’s red-light district
An open letter with signatories that include global architecture collective Failed Architecture is urging architects, developers, and construction firms not to participate in a plan to create a so-called “erotic center” located on the fringes of Amsterdam. The plan would involve shuttering window brothels in Amsterdam’s historic red-light district and relocating sex workers to the proposed pleasure zone far from the city center. Officials have identified eight potential areas for the red-light district relocation scheme.
Sex workers, 130 of whom also signed onto the
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