City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change

City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change /

"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...

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Other authors / contributors: Duyvendak, Jan Willem (Editor), Hendriks, Frank, 1966- (Editor), Niekerk, Mies van (Editor)
Imprint: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Netherlands.
City planning > Netherlands.
Series:NICIS.
Table of Contents:
  • Cities in sight, inside cities : an introduction / Jan Willem Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks and Mies van Niekerk
  • Part I. Urban transformations and local settings ; Post-industrialization and ethnocentrism in contemporary Dutch cities : the effects of job opportunities and residential segregation / Jeroen van der Waal and Jack Burgers
  • Unraveling neighborhood effects : evidence from two European welfare states / Sako Musterd and Fenne M. Pinkster
  • The effects of state-led gentrification in the Netherlands / Peter van der Graaf and Lex Veldboer
  • 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 ; Local and transnational aspects of citizenship : political practices and identifications of middle-class migrants in Rotterdam / Marianne van Bochove, Katja Rušinović, and Godfried Engbersen
  • A little less conversation, a little more action : real-life expressions of vital citizenship in city neighborhoods / Ted van de Wijdeven and Frank Hendriks
  • Organize liberal, think conservative : citizenship in light communities / Menno Hurenkamp
  • '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
  • Changing urban networks and gossip : Moroccan migrant women's networks in the Dutch welfare state / Marguerite van den Berg
  • Part III. The relationship between policy governance and front-line governance / Pieter Tops and Casper Hartman
  • Between ideals and pragmatism : practitioners working with immigrant youth in Amsterdam and Berlin / Floris Vermeulen and Tim Plaggenborg
  • Explaining the role of civic organizations in neighborhood co-production / Karien Dekker, René Torenvlied, Beate Völker and Herman Lelieveldt
  • 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.

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