Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction -- 1. Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation -- 2. Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States -- 3. The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands -- 4. Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam -- 5. Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship: Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class Migrants in Rotterdam -- 6. A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods -- 7. Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities -- 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 -- 9. Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women's Networks in the Dutch Welfare State -- 10. The Relationship Between Policy Governance and Front-line Governance -- 11. Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin -- 12. Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production -- 13. The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region -- The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.