City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change (NICIS Publications on Urban Research) - Softcover

9789089641694: City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change (NICIS Publications on Urban Research)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089641696 ISBN 13: 9789089641694

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2011

Huge social transformations and turbulent political events – 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh – have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates on urban problems. In this way, City in Sight not only provides insight into the most urgent questions of contemporary cities in the Netherlands, but also how these relate to similar problems in other countries as well.

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About the Author:

Jan Willem Duyvendak is sociologist at the University of Amsterdam. He has written a number of books on recent social movements, and is the co-editor of AUP's new book series, Protest and Social Movements.

Review:

“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)

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