Urban Europe. Fifty Tales of the City / Mamadouh, V.

In Urban Europe, urban researchers and practitioners based in Amsterdam tell the story of the European city, sharing their knowledge of and insights into urban dynamics in short, thought-provoking pieces. Their essays were collected on the occasion of the adoption of the Pact of Amsterdam with an Ur...

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Main Author: Mamadouh, V.
Other Authors: Wageningen, A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Urban Europe and the European Union / Mamadouh, Virginie / Wageningen, Anne van
  • Part 1: Citizenship
  • 2. At home in the city? / Duyvendak, Jan Willem / Wekker, Fenneke
  • 3. A tolerant social climate? / Sunier, Thijl
  • 4. Sex and the city / Hekma, Gert
  • 5. The city as integration mechanism? / Klaver, Jeanine / Odé, Arend
  • 6. Undocumented immigrants / Garcés-Mascareñas, Blanca / Chauvin, Sébastien
  • 7. From Mokum to Damsko and back again? / Mamadouh, Virginie / El Ayadi, Nesrin
  • 8. Schools in the multilingual city / Agirdag, Orhan
  • 9. City kids and citizenship / Karsten, Lia
  • 10. Those who feel left behind / Pinkster, Fenne M.
  • 11. Exiles in the city: A triptych / Snel, Guido / Eckenhaussen, Sepp / Ruiter, Fien de
  • Part 2: Urban nodes
  • 12. Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century / Arbonés Aran, Núria
  • 13. Competing cities and urban networks in medieval Europa / Steensel, Arie van
  • 14. Beyond anti-urban sentiments / Hemel, Zef
  • 15. Trendy coffee shops and urban sociability / Rath, Jan / Gelmers, Wietze
  • 16. A quiet transfer / Geltner, G.
  • 17. Build something different for a change! / Verlaan, Tim
  • 18. Big is beautiful? / Majoor, Stan
  • 19. Creative cities and shrinking cities: False opposites? / Bontje, Marco
  • Part 3: Creative cities
  • 20. The creative destruction and recovery of cities / Jonker, Joost
  • 21. Visions and symbols of the creative city / Rasterhoff, Claartje
  • 22. Smart cities value their smart citizens / Kresin, Frank
  • 23. The dangers of a tamed city / Kloosterman, Robert C.
  • 24. Cities and creative unpredictability / Föllmer, Moritz
  • 25. Cultural Incubators: The squats of the 21st century? / Draaisma, Jaap
  • 26. New cities as testing grounds for a new urbanity / Reijndorp, Arnold
  • Part 4: Sustainable cities
  • 27. The social sustainability of European cities / Musterd, Sako / Nijman, Jan
  • 28. Bothersome and besotted / Blok, Gemma
  • 29. ProefGroen (Taste Green / Test Green) / Dijkstra, Coosje / Halberstadt, Jutka / Seidell, Jaap / Verhoeff, Arnoud
  • 30. Cycling is an acquired skill / Brömmelstroet, Marco te
  • 31. Growing socio-spatial segregation in European capitals: Different government, less mitigation / Musterd, Sako
  • 32. The future of the city / Slot, Jeroen / Michon, Laure
  • 33. Welcome to Amsterdam! Well, not really / Wijngaarden, Arie van
  • 34. More than just housing / Veer, Jeroen van der / Schuiling, Dick
  • 35. The energetic city: Between dreams and deeds / Hisschemöller, Matthijs
  • Part 5: Urban representation
  • 36. The dreamed European city (urbo kune) / Laan, Eberhard van der
  • 37. Interlocking identities / Wintle, Michael
  • 38. An eye for freedom: Spinoza and Terstall in Amsterdam / Pisters, Patricia
  • 39. An urban geopolitics / Bialasiewicz, Luiza
  • 40. Decor and decorum in diplomacy / Wusten, Herman van der
  • 41. Urban diplomacy in Europe / Vos, Claske
  • 42. Town twinning / Mamadouh, Virginie
  • Part 6: Cities in administrative and policy networks
  • 43. The city as a tool to promote European integration: Napoleonic Amsterdam / Burg, Martijn van der / Wageningen, Anne van
  • 44. The European city as a bulwark of resistance against neoliberalisation / Zuidhof, P.W.
  • 45. About bed, bath and bread / Versteegh, Lia
  • 46. Safe cities in Europe: Making the leap to sustainable connections / Boer, Monica den
  • 47. URBAN Bijlmermeer / Dukes, Thea
  • 48. A Europe of peripheries / Savini, Federico
  • 49. An Urban Agenda for the European Union: About cities or with cities? / Heijde, Wouter van der
  • 50. 2031: The year the city disbanded the state / Wageningen, Anne van