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Governing European Cities

Governing European Cities

Social fragmentation, social exclusion and urban governance

Edited by
Hans Thor Andersen
Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ronald van Kempen
Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2019 by Routledge
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Copyright Hans Thor Andersen and Ronald van Kempen 2001

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ISBN 13: 978-1-138-73559-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-315-18646-7 (ebk)

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Hans Thor Andersen is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Copenhagen and has been a visiting researcher at the Danish Building Research Institute. His research interests are urban policy and social geography; he is currently working on the impact of globalization on the social structuration of European cities.

Roger Andersson is Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the Institute for Housing Research at Uppsala University. His main interests are: social and spatial mobility, ethnic relations, segregation dynamics and urban change.

Maurice Blanc is a Professor of Sociology arid Director of LASTES (Sociological research unit) of Nancy 2 University, France. He is presently involved in a European research project on socio-economic strategies in disadvantaged areas. He is a member of the editorial boards of Housing Studies and Espaces et Socits.

Ivar Brevik studied Geography and Languages at the University of Oslo. Since 1974 he has worked at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research in Oslo where he is now a senior researcher. He has specialized on living conditions, welfare, and social issues among vulnerable groups in urban settings.

Jack Burgers is Associate Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He has taught at the universities of Tilburg and Utrecht and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He has published books and articles on housing, the use and form of public space, ethnic minorities and social policy, economic restructuring and local consequences, and illegal migration.

Ingemar Elander is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Director of the Centre for Housing and Urban Research, rebro University, Sweden. He is author and co-author of several articles on environmental and housing policy, urban renewal, social democracy and local government. He is a member of the editorial board of European Spatial Research and Policy and of the advisory committee of European Journal of Housing Policy.

Heiriz Fassmann studied Geography and History at the University of Vienna (PhD). He is a former Director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Research. Since 1996 he has been Professor for Applied Geography and Geoinformatics at the Technical University in Munich. His research interests are urban geography, demography and geoinformatics.

Jrgen Friedrichs has a chair in Sociology at the University of Cologne and is director of the Research Institute of Sociology. He is senior editor of the Klner Zeitschrift fr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. His major fields of research are sociological theory, social inequality and urban research. He is currently doing research on the decline and revitalization of cities, urban poverty and neighbourhood effects. He has published numerous books and articles in scientific journals, his most recent book is Cities in the 1990s (1998).

Claude Jacquier is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble. He has been a professor in Grenoble, Lyon and Paris. He has researched the revitalization processes of towns in France, in Europe and Northern America (US and Canada) and has specialized in urban governance. He has been the director of the EU COST CIVITAS project of which this book is one of the results.

Hans Kristensen is the Head of Research in the Division of Housing and Urban Research and Deputy Director at the Danish Building Research Institute. He has contributed to several books and has written many articles on housing and urban issues.

Sako Musterd is Professor of Social Geography, Chair of the Department of Geography arid Planning, University of Amsterdam, Advisor on Spatial and Social Strategy to the local government of Amsterdam, and Chair of the Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research. His recent research concerns segregation, integration and the social impacts of spatial processes, particularly the socio-spatial aspects of segregation. In 1998, together with Wim Ostendorf, he published Urban Segregation and the Welfare State; Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities (London: Routledge).

Ursula Reeger studied Geography, specifically Regional Research and Regional Planning (PhD), and is with the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research interests are immigration, integration of immigrants into the labour and housing market, segregation, and xenophobia.

Ronald van Kempen is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the Urban Research Centre Utrecht at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on the links between spatial segregation, social exclusion and the development of cities. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. In 2000, he edited, together with Peter Marcuse, Globalizing Cities: a New Spatial Order? (Oxford: Blackwell).

Jan Vranken is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. He is head of the Research Unit on Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City, his main research topics. Since 1992, he has been publishing a Yearbook on Poverty and Social Exclusion.

Andrs Walliser is a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Social Studies of the Institute Juan March in Madrid and a lecturer on political science at the University of Syracuse in Spain. He is advisor to the Welfare Council of the Municipality of Barcelona and of the Regional Government of Castilla y Leon. His current research is focused upon citizen participation and urban governance and the impact on these processes of social capital and political culture, with special emphasis on its implications for social exclusion. His PhD dissertation draws comparisons between Madrid and Barcelona.

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