Table of Contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 8 Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction - 10 1. Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation - 26 2. Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States - 42 3. The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands - 62 4. Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam - 82 5. Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship: Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class Migrants in Rotterdam - 104 6. A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods - 122 7. Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities - 142 8. ‘Control over the Remote Control’, or How to Handle the ‘Normal’ World? The Policy and Practice of Community Care for People with Psychiatric or Intellectual Disabilities - 160 9. Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women’s Networks in the Dutch Welfare State - 174 10. The Relationship Between Policy Governance and Front-line Governance - 192 11. Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin - 204 12. Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production - 224 13. The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region - 250 The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary - 268 References - 278 Notes on Contributors - 302 Index - 308