Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of the regional city : spatial configuration and institutional dynamics / Sako Musterd and Willem Salet
  • Amsterdam in retrospect
  • Amsterdam as the "compleat citie": a city plan read in five episodes / Geert Mak
  • Between civic pride and mass society : Amsterdam in retrospect / Michiel Wagenaar
  • The historical roots of the daily urban system / Henk Schmal
  • The economic restructuring of the historic city center / Pieter Terhorst and Jacques van de Ven
  • The current state : dilemmas and perspectives
  • The economic, infrastructural and environmental dilemmas of spatial development
  • The Randstad : the creation of a metropolitan economy / Pieter Tordoir
  • Transport and land use concepts for the emerging urban region / Luca Bertolini, Frank le Clercq, and Loek Kapoen
  • Utilities as tools for shaping the city : waste management and power supply / Maarten Wolsink
  • Regional greenbelts and the problem of institutional fragmentation / Marijke van Schendelen
  • The social dilemmas of spatial development
  • Understanding segregation in the metropolitan area of Amsterdam / Sako Musterd and Wim Ostendorf
  • The metropolitan population : origin and mobility / Cees Cortie
  • Amsterdam human capital : what about children? / Lia Karsten
  • Public space and the homeless in Amsterdam / Leon Deben
  • The political and institutional dilemmas of spatial development
  • Voting in an old and a new town / Rius Deurloo, Sjoerd de Vos and Herman van der Wusten
  • Spatial detachment and new challenges of metropolitan governance / Willem Salet and Martin de Jong
  • Prospects of urbanity : new cultural identities?
  • Landscapes of power in Amsterdam? / Rob van Engelsdorp Gastelaars
  • Mixed embeddedness and post-industrial opportunity structures : trajectories of migrant entrepreneurship in Amsterdam / Robert Kloosterman
  • Identity and legitimacy in the Amsterdam region / Gertjan Dijkink and Virginie Mamadouh
  • Concluding considerations
  • Strategic dilemmas facing the Amsterdam region / Sako Musterd and Willem Salet.