City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change (Paperback)

Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction 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 5. Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship: Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class 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 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.