@article{1453354,
      recid = {1453354},
      author = {Boterman, Willem, and Gent, Wouter van,},
      title = {Making the middle-class city : the politics of gentrifying  Amsterdam /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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 Amsterdams change to a  middle-class city. 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. How can we  explain urban transformations of the past decades? Boterman  and Van Gent take on the challenge to explain how and why  Social-democratic Amsterdam became a middle-class city.  They conceptualize the socio-political cycle of urban  transformation to meticulously analyse the growth and  growing domination of middle classes that has transformed  politics, the local state and urban policies, and has  undermined Amsterdams quintessential social-redistributive  characteristics. The book presents a terrific case study to  bring to light the key processes that are reconfigurating  European cities...and beyond. -Professor Patrick le Gales  (SciencePo, Paris) Making the Middle-Class City is the  result of a ten-year long ambitious project linking  social-economic restructuring, electoral and political  shifts to housing, neighbourhood and city-wide  transformations. The key innovation of the book is that  Boterman and Van Gent demonstrate how the different changes  add up to nothing less than the gentrification of not only  the city but also of City Hall. They dissect how policy  makers and bureaucrats embody middle-class interests and  act upon those interests. The paradoxical result is a city  that is increasingly unaffordable to both working- and  middle-class households. This book speaks to current  tensions in many cities: between different class interests,  between tourism-led growth and housing affordability, and  ultimately between social justice and neoliberalism. It  will be required reading for anyone who wants to understand  how we got there. -Professor Manuel Aalbers (University of  Leuven) A superb book that tells us what is distinctive  about processes of gentrification in Amsterdam. Outs the  peddling of soft gentrification by a left-liberal Dutch  state and evidences the hard edged impacts of this. The  striking correlations between social and electoral change  point to the possible futures of gentrifying and  diversifying cities elsewhere in the world, beyond  Amsterdam. An excellent addition to the gentrification  studies literature. - Professor Loretta Lees (Director of  the Initiative on Cities, Boston University, USA).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1453354},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55493-2},
}