City in Sight
Dutch Dealings with Urban Change
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
City in Sight presents recent scholarship on the various issues facing today’s Dutch metropolitan areas, including immigration and the growing diversity among the urban population, urban restructuring and neighborhood renewal, shifts in urban governance, and the promotion of active citizenship. With its wealth of information and up-to-date research, this text will appeal to scholars of urban politics and social history from all over the globe.
“This timely and enlightening volume highlights the latest urban research in the Netherlands. From urban citizenship and civic participation to immigrant integration and urban governance, City in Sight provides valuable new perspectives on and insightful analysis of urban transformations and challenges in Dutch cities.”
“City in Sight will be a key resource not only for scholars who are concerned with specifically Dutch patterns of sociospatial development, but to all who are interested in understanding contemporary urban transformations, recent urban policies and the new lines of conflict the latter have generated.”
Acknowledgements
Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks, and Mies van Niekerk
Part I Urban Transformations and Local Settings
1 Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation
Jeroen van der Waal and Jack Burgers
2 Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States
Sako Musterd and Fenne M. Pinkster
3 The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands
Peter van der Graaf and Lex Veldboer
4 Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam
Ilse van Liempt and Lex Veldboer
Part II Urban Citizenship and Civic Life
5 Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class Migrants in Rotterdam
Marianne van Bochove, Katja Rušinović and Godfried Engbersen
6 A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods
Ted van de Wijdeven and Frank Hendriks
7 Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities
Menno Hurenkamp
8 ‘Control over the Remote Control’, or How to Handle the ‘Normal’ World? The Policy and Practice of Community Care for People with Psychiatric or Intellectual Disabilities
Loes Verplanke and Jan Willem Duyvendak
9 Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women’s Networks in the Dutch Welfare State
Marguerite van den Berg
Part III Urban Governance and Professional Politics
10 The Relationship Between Policy and Governance and Front-line Governance
Pieter Tops and Casper Hartman
11 Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin
Floris Vermeulen and Tim Plaggenborg
12 Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production
Karien Dekker, René Torenvlied, Beate Völker and Herman Lelieveldt
13 The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region
Leonie Janssen-Jansen and Willem Salet
The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary
John Mollenkopf
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
Sociology: Urban and Rural Sociology
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