Making the Middle-class City
The Politics of Gentrifying Amsterdam
Published on 24. November 2022
XVII, 246 pages
978-1-137-55493-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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11/2022
Palgrave MacMillan
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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.
Content
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.
