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City in Sight : Dutch Dealings with Urban Change / ed. by Mies van Niekerk, Frank Hendriks, Jan Willem Duyvendak.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: NICISPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048511211
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 307.7609492
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction -- Part I. Urban Transformations and Local Settings -- 1. Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation -- 2. Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States -- 3. The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands -- 4. Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam -- Part II. Urban Citizenship and Civic Life -- 5. Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship: Political Practices and Identifications of Middleclass Migrants in Rotterdam -- 6. A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods -- 7. Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities -- 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 -- 9. Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women's Networks in the Dutch Welfare State -- Part III. Urban Governance and Professional Politics -- 10. The Relationship Between Policy Governance and Front-line Governance -- 11. Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin -- 12. Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production -- 13. The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region -- The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction -- Part I. Urban Transformations and Local Settings -- 1. Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation -- 2. Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States -- 3. The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands -- 4. Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam -- Part II. Urban Citizenship and Civic Life -- 5. Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship: Political Practices and Identifications of Middleclass Migrants in Rotterdam -- 6. A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods -- 7. Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities -- 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 -- 9. Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women's Networks in the Dutch Welfare State -- Part III. Urban Governance and Professional Politics -- 10. The Relationship Between Policy Governance and Front-line Governance -- 11. Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin -- 12. Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production -- 13. The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region -- The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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.

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