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The familiar shape of western cities is changing dramatically. For long times the urban core was taken for granted as the focal point for international contacts and day-to-day activities in the region. Currently, the urban scope is transforming into multi centred forms at metropolitan scale. The transition is not just a matter of spatial form, it is reflecting social, economic and cultural processes. The question is what new identities may develop in such changing historical conditions of space and place. The book is a first attempt to analyse the process of urban transformation in an integral way. The focus is on the region of Amsterdam. All contributions are written by senior researchers of the Amsterdam studycentre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME). AME is the interdisciplinary urban research institute of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. As the urban research institute at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Amsterdam studycentre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME) analyses the economic, social and cultural aspects of this spatial transformation, usually in international comparative research. All contributions to this book are written by senior researchers of AME in an attempt to analyse in an integral way the present and future dilemmas out of the historical growth paths of this dynamic city. - De gebruikelijke vorm van westerse steden is drastisch aan het veranderen. Lange tijd was de stadskern het traditionele brandpunt van internationale contacten en dagelijkse activiteiten in de omgeving. Tegenwoordig is het stedelijke centrum aan het veranderen in een diffuus patroon van stedelijke kernen op een metropolitische schaal. De overgang is niet alleen een ruimtelijke aangelegenheid, maar is ook een reflectie van sociale, economische en culturele processen. De vraag is welke nieuwe identiteiten zich zullen ontwikkelen in een dergelijke veranderende historische voorwaarden van ruimte en plaats. Dit boek is een eerste aanzet om de processen van stedelijke veranderingen op een integrale wijze in kaart te brengen. De nadruk ligt op de regio Amsterdam. Alle bijdragen zijn geschreven door senior onderzoekers van het Amsterdam studycentre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME). Het AME is een interdisciplinair onderzoeksinstituut van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

The familiar shape of western cities is changing dramatically. For long times the urban core was taken for granted as the focal point for international contacts and day-to-day activities in the region. Currently, the urban scope is transforming into multi centred forms at metropolitan scale. The transition is not just a matter of spatial form, it is reflecting social, economic and cultural processes. The question is what new identities may develop in such changing historical conditions of space and place. The book is a first attempt to analyse the process of urban transformation in an integral way. The focus is on the region of Amsterdam. All contributions are written by senior researchers of the Amsterdam studycentre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME). AME is the interdisciplinary urban research institute of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. As the urban research institute at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Amsterdam studycentre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME) analyses the economic, social and cultural aspects of this spatial transformation, usually in international comparative research. All contributions to this book are written by senior researchers of AME in an attempt to analyse in an integral way the present and future dilemmas out of the historical growth paths of this dynamic city.

Die gemeinschaftliche Umweltpolitik in der Europäischen Union steht in der Kritik: So werden die EU-Maßnahmen häufig angesichts der europäischen Umweltprobleme als unzureichend kritisiert, gleichzeitig soll die Union den Mitgliedstaaten aber einen möglichst großen Handlungsspielraum belassen. Auch bei den Maastricht-Il- Verhandlungen im letzten Jahr in Amsterdam stand die Gemeinsame Umweltpolitik auf der Tagesordnung. Konnten hier Fortschritte erzielt werden?

Arnong the ten institutions of academic education existing in the Netherlands prior to World War II, the Univcrsity of Amsterdam stood out as the only one run by a city. Its professors were appointed by the Mayor and City Council of Amsterdam, whose attitudes were traditionally more liberal than elsewhere in the country. Due to this fact, but also because of its cosmopolitan student clientele, the University of Amsterdam gained a reputation to be sliglitly unconventional - without giving up the traditional Dutch reluctance to !et politics enter the sacred halls of science. When the Germans occupied Holland in May 1940, all universities were confronted with a dilemma. Should they actively take part in political protests against the prosecution of Jews and the recruitment of Dutch forced labor by Nazi authorities? Or should they steer a more cautious course, waiting till German oppression left no other way but open resistance? The University of Amsterdam opted for the latter, under the guidance of two rectors (Brouwer and Deelmaan) whose mind was fixated on the need to maintain order and discipline. However, there were courageous acts of civil disobedience of individual academics, professors as well as students. Consequently, many of them died in German concentration camps. Students who awaited the end of the War in Amsterdam had the opportunity to follow clandestine courses held by professors living as "submarines". After the liberation of Holland, such "underground studies" were officially recognized by academic authorities. Like all other Dutch Universities the University of Amsterdam redefined its public role after 1945, accepting a high degree of responsibility for a prospering democratic society. ; Arnong the ten institutions of academic education existing in the Netherlands prior to World War II, the Univcrsity of Amsterdam stood out as the only one run by a city. Its professors were appointed by the Mayor and City Council of Amsterdam, whose attitudes were traditionally more liberal than elsewhere in the country. Due to this fact, but also because of its cosmopolitan student clientele, the University of Amsterdam gained a reputation to be sliglitly unconventional - without giving up the traditional Dutch reluctance to !et politics enter the sacred halls of science. When the Germans occupied Holland in May 1940, all universities were confronted with a dilemma. Should they actively take part in political protests against the prosecution of Jews and the recruitment of Dutch forced labor by Nazi authorities? Or should they steer a more cautious course, waiting till German oppression left no other way but open resistance? The University of Amsterdam opted for the latter, under the guidance of two rectors (Brouwer and Deelmaan) whose mind was fixated on the need to maintain order and discipline. However, there were courageous acts of civil disobedience of individual academics, professors as well as students. Consequently, many of them died in German concentration camps. Students who awaited the end of the War in Amsterdam had the opportunity to follow clandestine courses held by professors living as "submarines". After the liberation of Holland, such "underground studies" were officially recognized by academic authorities. Like all other Dutch Universities the University of Amsterdam redefined its public role after 1945, accepting a high degree of responsibility for a prospering democratic society.