ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jan Willem Duyvendak is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Frank Hendriks is professor of comparative governance at the University of Tilburg. Mies van Nierkerk is research director at the NICIS Institute in Amsterdam.

REVIEWS

“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.”

— Nancy Foner, Hunter College

“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.”

— Neil Brenner, New York University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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