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Since the time of Adam Smith, scholars have tried to understand the role moral sentiments play in modern life, an issue that became especially urgent during and after the 2008 global financial crisis. Previous explanations have ranged from the idea that modern society is built on moral values to the notion that modernization results in moral decay. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume use the example of Dutch society and a wealth of empirical data to propose a novel theory about the ambivalent relation between contemporary life and human nature. In the process, the contributors argue for the need to reject simplistic explanations and reinvent civil society.

Since the time of Adam Smith, scholars have tried to understand the role moral sentiments play in modern life, an issue that became especially urgent during and after the 2008 global financial crisis. Previous explanations have ranged from the idea that modern society is built on moral values to the notion that modernization results in moral decay. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume use the example of Dutch society and a wealth of empirical data to propose a novel theory about the ambivalent relation between contemporary life and human nature. In the process, the contributors argue for the need to reject simplistic explanations and reinvent civil society.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Urban Europe and the European Union -- An introduction -- Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen -- Part 1 - Citizenship -- 2. At home in the city? -- The difference between friendship and amicability -- Jan Willem Duyvendak and Fenneke Wekker -- 3. A tolerant social climate? -- Questioning the validity of an overly positive self-image -- Thijl Sunier -- 4. Sex and the city -- Room for sexual citizenship -- Gert Hekma -- 5. The city as integration mechanism? -- Active, integrated migrants require an active government -- Jeanine Klaver and Arend Odé -- 6. Undocumented immigrants -- Between exclusion and inclusion -- Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas and Sébastien Chauvin -- 7. From Mokum to Damsko and back again? -- Deep language diversity and the new urbanity -- Virginie Mamadouh and Nesrin El Ayadi -- 8. Schools in the multilingual city -- Not every language is equal -- Orhan Agirdag -- 9. City kids and citizenship -- Lia Karsten -- 10. Those who feel left behind -- Fenne M. Pinkster -- 11. Exiles in the city: A triptych -- Guido Snel, Sepp Eckenhaussen and Fien de Ruiter -- Part 2 - Urban nodes -- 12. Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century -- Núria Arbonés Aran -- 13. Competing cities and urban networks in medieval Europa -- Arie van Steensel -- 14. Beyond anti-urban sentiments -- Towards a new metropolitan European family -- Zef Hemel -- 15. Trendy coffee shops and urban sociability -- Jan Rath and Wietze Gelmers -- 16. A quiet transfer -- The disappearing urban prison, Amsterdam and beyond -- G. Geltner -- 17. Build something different for a change! -- How the people of Amsterdam resisted the sell-out of their city centre -- Tim Verlaan -- 18. Big is beautiful? -- Small-scale urban projects for a new century -- Stan Majoor -- 19. Creative cities and shrinking cities: False opposites? -- Marco Bontje.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Urban Europe and the European Union / Mamadouh, Virginie / Wageningen, Anne van -- Part 1: Citizenship -- 2. At home in the city? / Duyvendak, Jan Willem / Wekker, Fenneke -- 3. A tolerant social climate? / Sunier, Thijl -- 4. Sex and the city / Hekma, Gert -- 5. The city as integration mechanism? / Klaver, Jeanine / Odé, Arend -- 6. Undocumented immigrants / Garcés-Mascareñas, Blanca / Chauvin, Sébastien -- 7. From Mokum to Damsko and back again? / Mamadouh, Virginie / El Ayadi, Nesrin -- 8. Schools in the multilingual city / Agirdag, Orhan -- 9. City kids and citizenship / Karsten, Lia -- 10. Those who feel left behind / Pinkster, Fenne M. -- 11. Exiles in the city: A triptych / Snel, Guido / Eckenhaussen, Sepp / Ruiter, Fien de -- Part 2: Urban nodes -- 12. Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century / Arbonés Aran, Núria -- 13. Competing cities and urban networks in medieval Europa / Steensel, Arie van -- 14. Beyond anti-urban sentiments / Hemel, Zef -- 15. Trendy coffee shops and urban sociability / Rath, Jan / Gelmers, Wietze -- 16. A quiet transfer / Geltner, G. -- 17. Build something different for a change! / Verlaan, Tim -- 18. Big is beautiful? / Majoor, Stan -- 19. Creative cities and shrinking cities: False opposites? / Bontje, Marco -- Part 3: Creative cities -- 20. The creative destruction and recovery of cities / Jonker, Joost -- 21. Visions and symbols of the creative city / Rasterhoff, Claartje -- 22. Smart cities value their smart citizens / Kresin, Frank -- 23. The dangers of a tamed city / Kloosterman, Robert C. -- 24. Cities and creative unpredictability / Föllmer, Moritz -- 25. Cultural Incubators: The squats of the 21st century? / Draaisma, Jaap -- 26. New cities as testing grounds for a new urbanity / Reijndorp, Arnold -- Part 4: Sustainable cities -- 27. The social sustainability of European cities / Musterd, Sako / Nijman, Jan -- 28. Bothersome and besotted / Blok, Gemma -- 29. ProefGroen (Taste Green / Test Green) / Dijkstra, Coosje / Halberstadt, Jutka / Seidell, Jaap / Verhoeff, Arnoud -- 30. Cycling is an acquired skill / Brömmelstroet, Marco te -- 31. Growing socio-spatial segregation in European capitals: Different government, less mitigation / Musterd, Sako -- 32. The future of the city / Slot, Jeroen / Michon, Laure -- 33. Welcome to Amsterdam! Well, not really / Wijngaarden, Arie van -- 34. More than just housing / Veer, Jeroen van der / Schuiling, Dick -- 35. The energetic city: Between dreams and deeds / Hisschemöller, Matthijs -- Part 5: Urban representation -- 36. The dreamed European city (urbo kune) / Laan, Eberhard van der -- 37. Interlocking identities / Wintle, Michael -- 38. An eye for freedom: Spinoza and Terstall in Amsterdam / Pisters, Patricia -- 39. An urban geopolitics / Bialasiewicz, Luiza -- 40. Decor and decorum in diplomacy / Wusten, Herman van der -- 41. Urban diplomacy in Europe / Vos, Claske -- 42. Town twinning / Mamadouh, Virginie -- Part 6: Cities in administrative and policy networks -- 43. The city as a tool to promote European integration: Napoleonic Amsterdam / Burg, Martijn van der / Wageningen, Anne van -- 44. The European city as a bulwark of resistance against neoliberalisation / Zuidhof, P.W. -- 45. About bed, bath and bread / Versteegh, Lia -- 46. Safe cities in Europe: Making the leap to sustainable connections / Boer, Monica den -- 47. URBAN Bijlmermeer / Dukes, Thea -- 48. A Europe of peripheries / Savini, Federico -- 49. An Urban Agenda for the European Union: About cities or with cities? / Heijde, Wouter van der -- 50. 2031: The year the city disbanded the state / Wageningen, Anne van