Amsterdam Human Capital

400 Pages·2003·3.58 MB·English

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Human Capital
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amsterdam human capital
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Amsterdam Human Capital
Sako Musterd and Willem Salet (eds.)
Amsterdam University Press
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Cover illustration:Friso Spoelstra / Hollandse Hoogte
Cover design: Kok Korpershoek, Amsterdam
Lay-out: Het Steen Typografie, Maarssen
isbn90 5356 595 7
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©Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2003
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Contents
FOREWORD 009
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Emergence of the Regional City 013
Spatial Configuration and Institutional Dynamics
Sako Musterd and Willem Salet
2. AMSTERDAM IN RETROSPECT
2.1 Amsterdam as the “Compleat Citie” 031
A City Plan read in Five Episodes
Geert Mak
2.2 Between Civic Pride and Mass Society 049
Amsterdam in Retrospect
Michiel Wagenaar
2.3 The Historical Roots of the Daily Urban System 067
Henk Schmal
2.4 The Economic Restructuring of the Historic City Center 085
Pieter Terhorst and Jacques van de Ven
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3. THE CURRENT STATE: DILEMMAS AND PERSPECTIVES
A. The Economic, Infrastructural and Environmental Dilemmas of
Spatial Development
3.1 The Randstad: The Creation of a Metropolitan Economy 105
Pieter Tordoir
3.2 Transport and Land Use Concepts for the
Emerging Urban Region 127
Luca Bertolini, Frank le Clercq, and Loek Kapoen
3.3 Utilities as Tools for Shaping the City 143
Waste Management and Power Supply
Maarten Wolsink
3.4 Regional Greenbelts and the Problem of Institutional
Fragmentation 163
Marijke van Schendelen
B. The Social Dilemmas of Spatial Development
3.5 Understanding Segregation in the Metropolitan
Area of Amsterdam 181
Sako Musterd and Wim Ostendorf
3.6 The Metropolitan Population 199
Origin and Mobility
Cees Cortie
3.7 Amsterdam Human Capital: What about Children? 217
Lia Karsten
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3.8 Public Space and the Homeless in Amsterdam 229
Leon Deben
C. The Political and Institutional Dilemmas of Spatial Development
3.9 Voting in an Old and a New Town 247
Rinus Deurloo, Sjoerd de Vos and Herman van der Wusten
3.10Spatial Detachment and New Challenges of
Metropolitan Governance 269
Willem Salet and Martin de Jong
4. PROSPECTS OF URBANITY: NEW CULTURAL IDENTITIES?
4.1 Landscapes of Power in Amsterdam? 289
Rob van Engelsdorp Gastelaars
4.2 Mixed Embeddedness and Post-Industrial
Opportunity Structures 311
Trajectories of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Amsterdam
Robert Kloosterman
4.3 Identity and Legitimacy in the Amsterdam Region 331
Gertjan Dijkink and Virginie Mamadouh
5. CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS
5.1 Strategic Dilemmas Facing the Amsterdam Region 359
Sako Musterd and Willem Salet
LIST OP COPYRIGHTS 369
INDEX 371
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Foreword
Amsterdam is undergoing a process of gradual but profound urban transformation.
As an important node of national and international culture and trade, Amster-
dam’s inner city is arguably the most urban of Dutch city centers. This area contained
the highest concentrations of specialized professional skills and economic expertise,
was the leading center of culture and education, and the cradle of multicultural cos-
mopolitanism in the Netherlands. Although this convergence of urban qualities can
still be found in the inner city (i.e. it has retained its vitality), the actual meaning of ur-
banism or “urbanity” no longer coincides with this particular area. Over the past twen-
ty years, many offices and specialized economic activities moved to new functional
centers on the urban periphery (or even further). In addition, urban residences are
spreading outwards and becoming more differentiated at the regional or metropoli-
tan level of scale. Many other urban activities have decentralized as well. Meanwhile,
the inner city is adapting itself to a more niche market by focusing on, for example, cul-
ture and particular segments of the housing market. The familiar “inner-city urban-
ism” is transforming into a sort of metropolitan “network urbanism.”
This transformation is not unique to Amsterdam. Most of the major conurbations in
Europe and North America are coping with similar challenges. But the historic condi-
tions, the paths of dependency and the particular conditions are different everywhere.
This book examines how the urban/metropolitan transformation is taking shape un-
der the particular conditions of the Amsterdam conurbation. How do economic, social
and cultural processes affect this new metropolitan configuration of space and insti-
tutions? Naturally, this book also addresses the intriguing question what new urban
identities might develop in such changing historical conditions of space and place.
The issue of metropolitan transformation currently lies at the heart of internation-
al research on urban and regional development and governance, and the internation-
al comparative perspective is reflected in the contributions to this book. International
comparisons, however, usually focus on particular aspects of urban growth. By focus-
ing this collection on one particular region, we sought to cover a wider range of per-
spectives on metropolitan dynamics. The book deals with both the spatial and eco-
nomic aspects and the cultural, political, and institutional potentials of development.
We are proud to say that all of the contributions were written by senior researchers at
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