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Wither the ‘Undivided City'? An Assessment of State‐Sponsored Gentrification in A msterdam
Author(s) -
Uitermark Justus,
Bosker Tjerk
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12072
Subject(s) - gentrification , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , public housing , political science , economic growth , development economics , sociology , economics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Like many other governments, the D utch government has simultaneously pursued the contradictory goals of liberalising the housing market and countering the concentration of low‐income groups. This paper discusses how the tension between promoting market forces and countering segregation has played out, using A msterdam as a case study. The findings suggest that the policy may have mitigated but did not prevent a deepening division between the city's increasingly privileged core and its periphery. This is at least in part because social mixing was pursued also in neighbourhoods already prone to gentrification.