Willem Boterman, Wouter van Gent

Making the Middle-class City

The Politics of Gentrifying Amsterdam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to understand the urban transformation of Amsterdam over a 40-year period. In addition to charting social and economic changes associated with gentrification, it analyses the electoral dynamics and middle-class politics that have underpinned Amsterdam's change to a middle-class city.

Produktdetails

• The Contemporary City
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-57494-7
• 1st ed. 2023
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781137574947
• ISBN-10: 1137574941
• Artikelnr.: 66942092

Autorenporträt

Willem Boterman & Wouter van Gent are Urban and Political Geographers at the department of Geography, Planning, and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Class, State and Urban Space.- 3. Social and Spatial Transformations.- 4. The Electoral Geography Of Amsterdam.- 5. Political and Institutional Transformations.- 6. Symbolic Politics within the Local State.- 7. Conclusion.