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.