Since gentrification entails significant negative social consequences, one important question
is why residents of neighborhoods on the verge of gentrification often do not effectively …

Living in certain neighborhoods may exacerbate the poverty problem by affecting the life
chances of people negatively. The important question is by which mechanisms the …

This book is about antisemitism and the stereotypical Jew in postwar Dutch society. When
we embarked on this project we envisioned a series of interconnected chapters that follow …

This article offers alternative views on scrounging—looking through garbage to find valuable
objects—as a disorderly activity, and on urban public life as dangerous because of …

First published in 1999, this volume aims to go beyond this debate is to explore the factors
which have contributed to women's exclusion from rights and full citizenship. Beginning by …

In de zomer van 2004 schreef Toine Heijmans, een op IJburg woonachtige journalist, in de
Volkskrant dat zich in de wijk een 'hechte gemeenschap op het opgespoten zand'aan het …

Social mixing is viewed as an instrument for social justice because it is used to integrate
different categories of inhabitants and improves social conditions in poor urban …

Introductie 118 Thuis en de micro-politiek van het alledaagse 120 Narratieve cartografie 126
Topografie van de alledaagse ruimte 134 Volle ruimte: intimiteit en privacy 138 Lege ruimte …

For decades, the new housing estates that were built in the Netherlands after World War II
had a solid reputation as neighbourhoods of progress (Reijndorp & Van der Ven 1994) …

There is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play,
one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down …