Ronald Van Kempen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Van Kempen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Kempen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN KEMPEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
Handbook of Urban Geography
Housing Estates
Housing estates should not be seen by definition as the worst places in the city. Although quite a number of these estates do suffer from very bad stigmatization and heavy concentrations of all kinds of social and socioeconomic problems, other estates function very well and have an important housing function in the housing market and for those with lower incomes. Processes of urban restructuring have physically improved a number of estates in the…
Hyper-diversity in/and geographies of childhood and youth
This paper reviews recent work on childhood, youth and diversity in geography. It argues for a need to move from conceptualisations of super-diversity to notions of hyper-diversity. Such a move recognises how multiple facets of social difference extend beyond commonly used identity categories deployed in intersectional or superdiverse analyses. In particular, the notion of hyper-diversity enables an exploration of how identity categories articula…
The Global Financial Crisis and neighborhood decline
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC), which started in 2008, has had a major impact on many Western European and North American countries. In the years preceding the crisis, many countries in the Global North experienced rising house prices, accompanied by an expansion of mortgage financing (Wachter, 2015). As the financial market has become increasingly global, the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and house price bubble in the United States…
The global financial crisis and neighborhood decline
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variations in economic and political structures (including varieties in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development, and population composition, make it impossible to identify an ideal-type process of neighborhood decline over time. The recent global financial crisis and the subsequent economic recession a…
Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis: An introduction
Urban neighborhoods are still important in the lives of its residents. Therefore, it is important to find out how the recent global financial and economic crisis affects these neighborhoods. Which types of neighborhoods and which residents suffer more than others? This introduction provides an overview of the papers in this special feature that focus on this question. It concludes with the statement that governments should specifically pay attent…
Beyond residential segregation: Introduction
A good place to raise your children? The diversity of parents’ neighbourhood perceptions and parenting practices in a low-income, multi-ethnic neighbourhood
Come and live here and you'll experience it’: Youths talk about their deprived neighbourhood
This study examined youths' lived experiences of a deprived neighbourhood in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Previous studies assume that deprived neighbourhoods pose serious risks for youths. What is largely missing from these studies, however, are the experiences of young people themselves. Do they indeed experience their neighbourhood as hostile and unsafe? Do they really experience a lack of resources? We conducted a qualitative study among youth…
Between places and flows: Towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in an age of mobility
This article discusses the role of the neighbourhood in an era of increased mobility. It explores the consequences of the “new mobilities paradigm”, which argues that the growing importance of flows – of people, goods and information – results in a deterritorialization of social practices. Rows thus gain prominence in comparison to places like regions and neighbourhoods. At the same time, however, neighbourhoods continue to play a role in the act…
Out of Place? The Effects of Demolition on Youths’ Social Contacts and Leisure Activities—A Case Study in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Most Dutch cities have adopted urban restructuring policies aimed at creating a socially mixed population in deprived neighbourhoods. This entails the demolition of low-cost, social rented housing units, which leads to the displacement of their residents. While researchers have investigated the social effects of displacement on adults, this study is the first to provide insight into the effects on youths. The findings indicate that, although the …
Individual Activity Patterns and the Meaning of Residential Environments for Inter‐Ethnic Contact
Past research has indicated that the ethnic composition of residential neighbourhoods influences inter‐ethnic contact. However, little attention has been paid to individual activity and travel patterns which encompass encounters with others at physical and virtual activity sites, such as sports clubs and online chat rooms. By analysing a D utch dataset on the life of urban ethnic minorities, we found that individual activity patterns are importan…
Victims or Victors? the Effects of Forced Relocations on Housing Satisfaction in Dutch Cities
Urban restructuring is changing the face of many Western European cities. Old, relatively cheap dwellings are being demolished and replaced by new, more expensive ones. The spatial effects of this process have been extensively studied, but little is known about the residents who are forced to relocate so that their dwellings can be demolished or updated. We therefore studied how satisfied forced movers are with their current housing situation, an…
Why do Displaced Residents Move to Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods
Urban restructuring-the large-scale demolition of low-rent dwellings, followed by the construction of more upmarket alternatives-forces residents to make a step in their housing career. Because displaced residents tend to have a low socioeconomic position, they are often confined to the most affordable parts of the housing stock. Since these dwellings are generally concentrated in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, displaced resident…
Urban Restructuring and Forced Relocations: Housing Opportunities for Youth? A Case Study in Utrecht, the Netherlands
The existence of deprived urban neighbourhoods leads many governments to adopt policies of urban restructuring aimed at changing the socio-physical structure of these areas. Such policies often take form in the demolition of social rented dwellings and the displacement of residents. Although we know quite a lot about the effects of displacement on adults, little attention has been paid to the effects on youth. This paper provides insight into the…
Introduction Special Issue: Mixing Neighbourhoods: Success or Failure
Mixed Neighbourhoods: Effects of Urban Restructuring and New Housing Development
Many E uropean countries use mixed housing policies to decrease the spatial concentration of low‐income households. Also in the N etherlands, social housing in deprived neighbourhoods is demolished and replaced by more expensive dwellings. The idea is that these new dwellings attract higher‐income groups to urban restructuring neighbourhoods. At the same time, however large numbers of relatively expensive dwellings have been built on greenfield l…
Introduction—Living in Chinese Enclave Cities
(2012). Introduction—Living in Chinese Enclave Cities. Urban Geography: Vol. 33, Living in Chinese Enclave Cities, pp. 161-166
Enclave Urbanism In China: Consequences and Interpretations
Following reforms enacted since the late 1970s, domestic and foreign investments \nare resulting in a dramatic transformation of China’s landscape. The concentrated Maoist city with \nits cellular multifunctional work-unit structure is disappearing. In its place, cities now emerge as \npatchworks of mono-functional and mono-cultural enclaves, often demarcated by walls and gates. \nBased on experiences elsewhere, urban theorists criticize such seg…
Heteropolitanization: Social and spatial change in Central and East European Cities
Residential Satisfaction in Housing Estates in European Cities: A Multi-level Research Approach
This paper mainly focuses on the determinants of housing and estate satisfaction in post-Second World War housing estates. Multi-level linear regression models were applied to estimate the impacts of individual, dwelling and estate characteristics on resident satisfaction levels, using a unique dataset from 25 post-Second World War estates in nine European countries. It is concluded that satisfaction with the dwelling is higher for the elderly an…
Resident Perceptions of Flagship Waterfront Regeneration: The Case of the Kop Van Zuid in Rotterdam
Flagships, also referred to as megaprojects, and frequently involving waterfront regeneration, are a common form of urban redevelopment. Their goals are often aimed at an outside audience of tourists, investors and potential (high income) residents. While the target may be external, the ways in which these spaces are perceived by the local population is an important, and, as yet, under‐researched, area. Many scholars suggest that flagships have a…
Successful Mixing? Effects of Urban Restructuring Policies in Dutch Neighbourhoods
Concentrations of poverty in urban neighbourhoods are generally unwanted, because of all kinds of presumed negative consequences for the social mobility and the quality of life of the residents. Because of these negative associations, policies in Western European countries are often aimed at breaking up these poverty concentrations by mixing the population composition through changing the housing stock. However, whether these policies are success…
Explaining divided cities in China
We're a Rich City with Poor People: Municipal Strategies of New-Build Gentrification in Rotterdam and Glasgow
Gentrification-the creation of affluent space-has evolved from a sporadic and spontaneous process focusing on individual households into a municipal goal in and of itself, either in existing neighbourhoods, or in new-build developments. This is increasingly being done through flagship new-build gentrification projects. This paper examines why and how this strategy has been implemented in Rotterdam and Glasgow through a study of two projects: the …
Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World
As an introduction to this special issue on ethnic segregation in cities, we offer the readers an overview of the explanatory factors of ethnic segregation and spatial concentration in modern welfare states. After a discussion of the disadvantages and advantages of segregation and concentration, which can be seen as the impetus behind the widespread interest in this topic, we will briefly review some 'traditional' theories. That review will be fo…
Minority Ethnic Groups in the Dutch Housing Market: Spatial Segregation, Relocation Dynamics and Housing Policy
Ethnic segregation is consolidated by differences between ethnic groups with regard to their moving decision. Using unique registration data on population flows between neighbourhoods, the paper shows that native Dutch living in neighbourhoods where ethnic minorities are overrepresented are more likely to move than minority ethnic residents. Moreover, they move much more often to `White' neighbourhoods. Urban policies in the Netherlands focus on …
Enclave Urbanism In China: Consequences and Interpretations
Following reforms enacted since the late 1970s, domestic and foreign investments \nare resulting in a dramatic transformation of China’s landscape. The concentrated Maoist city with \nits cellular multifunctional work-unit structure is disappearing. In its place, cities now emerge as \npatchworks of mono-functional and mono-cultural enclaves, often demarcated by walls and gates. \nBased on experiences elsewhere, urban theorists criticize such seg…
Housing Policy, (De)segregation and Social Mixing: An International Perspective
Much of the academic and policy literature on residential segregation has emphasised the \nnegative effects of the enduring concentration of households from particular ethnic or \nsocio-economic groups. Often drawing directly on the US experience of ‘ghettoisation’, \nmany contributors have pointed to persistent black minority segregation in particular as a \nbenchmark of failure with regard to social and economic integration, and equality of \no…
Ethnic Segregation and Residential Mobility: Relocations of Minority Ethnic Groups in the Netherlands
The degree of spatial segregation and concentration of minority ethnic groups in European cities is well documented. However, little is known about the residential mobility between neighbourhoods that brings about changes in the patterns of ethnic segregation. In this paper we analyse the residential mobility of minority ethnic groups from an assimilation perspective, according to which moving out of ethnic into predominantly white neighbourhoods…
Social effects of urban restructuring: A case study in Amsterdam and Utrecht, the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, urban restructuring has been a major policy since 1997. Its principal aim is to improve neighbourhoods by demolishing or upgrading low-rent social dwellings and building more expensive rental or owner occupied units. A fundamental idea underlying this policy is to break up the physical and social monotony of urban areas and to achieve a mixed population in terms of income. The consequence of this new mix should be that people …
The New Divided City: Changing Patterns in European Cities
Over the last 20 years there has been a vigorous discussion of evidence related to new and more intense social and spatial divisions within European cities. These contributions have identified social and spatial polarisation associated with globalisation, deindustrialisation and the increasing income inequalities arising from these. However, various ‘moderating’ factors were identified to explain why different outcomes were emerging in European c…
Housing Careers of Minority Ethnic Groups: Experiences, Explanations and Prospects
The housing careers of minority ethnic groups is an under-researched topic. Filling this knowledge gap is important for several reasons. Increased knowledge within this field may help explain the disadvantaged position of minority ethnic groups in housing markets in cities on different continents. Policy strategies can be formulated when it is known whether minority ethnic groups have specific preferences or suffer from specific barriers in the h…
Social cohesion, social mix, and urban policies in the Netherlands
Urban policy in the Netherlands has long been focused on improving disadvantaged urban districts. In the last 13 years policy has become particularly area-based. Here the spatial concentration of low-income households has been seen as a highly problematic issue. Because of this negative view of these concentrations, a housing mix in the problematic urban areas has been considered to be one of the most promising solutions. A housing mix would resu…
Segregation and Housing of Minority Ethnic Groups in Western European Cities
Segregation of minority ethnic groups is a returning issue in public and political debates in many parts of the world. This paper focuses on Western European cities and presents information on levels and dynamics of segregation. While acknowledging the measurement problems, we feel comfortable in saying that overall segregation levels do not appear to increase. However, big differences exist, not just between immigrant groups in one city, but als…
Between places and flows: Towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in an age of mobility
This article discusses the role of the neighbourhood in an era of increased mobility. It explores the consequences of the “new mobilities paradigm”, which argues that the growing importance of flows – of people, goods and information – results in a deterritorialization of social practices. Rows thus gain prominence in comparison to places like regions and neighbourhoods. At the same time, however, neighbourhoods continue to play a role in the act…
Escaping poverty neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
While patterns of spatial segregation and concentration of ethnic minority groups in European cities have been well documented, more dynamic data on migration have been rare until now. In particular, little is known about the potential for different kinds of households to escape from poverty areas. Escaping these areas can be important in order to escape unwanted housing and living conditions. The analyses in this paper show that in the Netherlan…
Residential Satisfaction in Housing Estates in European Cities: A Multi-level Research Approach
This paper mainly focuses on the determinants of housing and estate satisfaction in post-Second World War housing estates. Multi-level linear regression models were applied to estimate the impacts of individual, dwelling and estate characteristics on resident satisfaction levels, using a unique dataset from 25 post-Second World War estates in nine European countries. It is concluded that satisfaction with the dwelling is higher for the elderly an…
Undivided Cities in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Political Rhetoric
In various countries we observe governments aiming to produce mixed income areas to reduce or prevent spatial segregation. This almost always implies a redifferentiation, or restructuring of the housing stock of low-income areas. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. Redifferentiation and restructuring are based on the idea that solutions to the problems of spatial segregation and concentration can be found in the housing stock. Thi…
Moving Up or Moving Down? Housing Careers of Turks and Moroccans in Utrecht, the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the housing conditions of most ethnic minorities are still inferior to those of the native Dutch. The focus of the paper is the housing careers of Turks and Moroccans in the city of Utrecht. Despite some improvements and certain exceptions, they still find themselves in housing conditions inferior to those of the native Dutch. A career approach is necessary to explain these less favourable housing conditions because the presen…
Revolution in Social Housing in the Netherlands: Possible Effects of New Housing Policies
The social rented sector in the Netherlands has always had a very special status. Unlike many other countries, in the Netherlands this sector has never been regarded as a segment exclusively for low-income households. Consequently, neighbourhoods with large numbers of social rented dwellings have never been areas for low-income households only. Since about 1990, however, the proportion of low-income households in social rented housing has increas…
The global financial crisis and neighborhood decline
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variations in economic and political structures (including varieties in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development, and population composition, make it impossible to identify an ideal-type process of neighborhood decline over time. The recent global financial crisis and the subsequent economic recession a…
Heteropolitanization: Social and spatial change in Central and East European Cities
Divided cities in the 21st century: Challenging the importance of globalisation
Explaining divided cities in China
We're a Rich City with Poor People: Municipal Strategies of New-Build Gentrification in Rotterdam and Glasgow
Gentrification-the creation of affluent space-has evolved from a sporadic and spontaneous process focusing on individual households into a municipal goal in and of itself, either in existing neighbourhoods, or in new-build developments. This is increasingly being done through flagship new-build gentrification projects. This paper examines why and how this strategy has been implemented in Rotterdam and Glasgow through a study of two projects: the …
New trends in urban policies in Europe: Evidence from the Netherlands and Denmark
Ethnic Segregation in the Netherlands: New Patterns, New Policies
An impressive set of welfare state arrangements has kept ethnic segregation and concentration in Dutch cities to a relatively low level. Indices of segregation have also been relatively stable over the last two decades. This does not mean, however, that concentrations of ethnic minority groups are stable. Some types of neighbourhoods seem to have become less important as housing areas for ethnic minority groups, while others are becoming their ma…
Towards Undivided Cities: The Potential of Economic Revitalisation and Housing Redifferentiation
The 'undivided city' has become a major policy aim of today's local urban politicians. Therefore, adequate insight in the relevant dimensions affecting the urban social divide seems to be required, if only to be able to formulate proper policy strategies. However, whereas the literature reveals that various factors are responsible for the rise of divided cities, with perhaps global economic restructuring processes and welfare state differences as…
Ethnic Residential Patterns in Dutch Cities: Backgrounds, Shifts and Consequences
This article describes recent trends in the residential patterns of ethnic minorities, specifically Turks and Moroccans, in Dutch cities. In order to evaluate the patterns and their dynamics, some general observations about segregation are included. The patterns in the big cities are compared to those observed elsewhere in the country and in other European cities. This brief comparison is followed by a discussion of how the observed spatial patte…
Minority Business and the Hidden Dimension the Influence of Urban Contexts on the Development of Ethnic Enterprise
Economic Change, Income Differentiation and Housing: Urban Response in the Netherlands
The economic development in the Netherlands and the spatial structure of housing opportunities have led to a concentration of the poor in the large cities. The cities offer a large affordable housing stock, and housing regulations provide the poor with sufficient access to decent housing. There are, however, interesting variations in housing situations among different segments of the poor. It is also characteristic in Dutch cities that the poor f…
Urban Policy, Housing Policy, and the Demise of the Dutch Welfare State
Gentrification and the Urban Poor: Urban Restructuring and Housing Policy in Utrecht
A major housing policy shift is occurring in the Netherlands in the early 1990s. Its main thrust is the decentralisation of control from the national to the regional level. The trend toward deregulation and budget cuts will give market principles more leeway in housing. This paper traces the impact of these policies on the housing situations of low-income groups. Some of the anticipated effects are illustrated in a case-study of housing and neigh…
The urban poor in the Netherlands and the residential mix in the cities
Les citadins pauvres aux Pays-Bas et la mixité résidentielle dans les villes. Cet article traite de la relation entre revenus et concentration spatiale dans les villes néerlandaises et plus particulièrement des faiblés revenus. Après une briève définition de la pauvreté, l'auteur décrit les principaux groupes de pauvres des Pays-Bas. Puis il analyse la ségrégation et la concentration spatiale de certains d'entre eux. On en conclut que la relation…
Segregation, Housing and Ethnicity in Dutch Cities
A New Spatial Order in Cities
Turks in the Netherlands: Urban Segregation and Neighborhood Choice
There is a growing body of urban research and theory on the existence and persistence of concentration areas. Segregation takes many forms in cities. On one end of the spectrum, we discern ghettos (where members of the same ethnic group live because they have no other choice); on the other end, we find enclaves (areas with people belonging to the same ethnic group who choose to live there). It is important to find out if people are housed in neig…
Segregation and Turks' housing conditions in middle-sized Dutch cities
This article attempts to answer two questions. First, it describes and explains segregation and concentration of one minority ethnic group (Turks) in three middle‐sized Dutch cities (Amersfoort, Delft, and Den Bosch). The question is whether or not segregation and concentration have increased and how this can be explained. This information adds to existing knowledge about the largest cities in the Netherlands. One of the main conclusions is that,…
Ethnic Segregation in Cities: New Forms and Explanations in a Dynamic World
As an introduction to this special issue on ethnic segregation in cities, we offer the readers an overview of the explanatory factors of ethnic segregation and spatial concentration in modern welfare states. After a discussion of the disadvantages and advantages of segregation and concentration, which can be seen as the impetus behind the widespread interest in this topic, we will briefly review some 'traditional' theories. That review will be fo…
Ethnic Residential Patterns in Dutch Cities: Backgrounds, Shifts and Consequences
This article describes recent trends in the residential patterns of ethnic minorities, specifically Turks and Moroccans, in Dutch cities. In order to evaluate the patterns and their dynamics, some general observations about segregation are included. The patterns in the big cities are compared to those observed elsewhere in the country and in other European cities. This brief comparison is followed by a discussion of how the observed spatial patte…
Ethnic Minority Housing in the European Union: A Case Study of Turks
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9663.00042
Towards Undivided Cities: The Potential of Economic Revitalisation and Housing Redifferentiation
The 'undivided city' has become a major policy aim of today's local urban politicians. Therefore, adequate insight in the relevant dimensions affecting the urban social divide seems to be required, if only to be able to formulate proper policy strategies. However, whereas the literature reveals that various factors are responsible for the rise of divided cities, with perhaps global economic restructuring processes and welfare state differences as…
Undivided Cities in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Political Rhetoric
In various countries we observe governments aiming to produce mixed income areas to reduce or prevent spatial segregation. This almost always implies a redifferentiation, or restructuring of the housing stock of low-income areas. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. Redifferentiation and restructuring are based on the idea that solutions to the problems of spatial segregation and concentration can be found in the housing stock. Thi…
Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?
Housing and Social Fragmentation in the Netherlands
The role of housing policy has been largely ignored in the debate on social fragmentation in Western societies. Only in Great Britain has this aspect attained prominence on the research agenda. Investigations there have shown that the mode of housing provision mitigates the effects of social fragmentation. Research elsewhere might help to clarify how and why the housing market amplifies or diminishes these effects. The case of the Netherlands is …
Big cities policy in the Netherlands
Of states and cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space
Housing Careers of Minority Ethnic Groups: Experiences, Explanations and Prospects
The housing careers of minority ethnic groups is an under-researched topic. Filling this knowledge gap is important for several reasons. Increased knowledge within this field may help explain the disadvantaged position of minority ethnic groups in housing markets in cities on different continents. Policy strategies can be formulated when it is known whether minority ethnic groups have specific preferences or suffer from specific barriers in the h…
Moving Up or Moving Down? Housing Careers of Turks and Moroccans in Utrecht, the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the housing conditions of most ethnic minorities are still inferior to those of the native Dutch. The focus of the paper is the housing careers of Turks and Moroccans in the city of Utrecht. Despite some improvements and certain exceptions, they still find themselves in housing conditions inferior to those of the native Dutch. A career approach is necessary to explain these less favourable housing conditions because the presen…
The Changing Tenant Profile of Dutch Social Rented Housing
This article deals with the changes in the tenant profile of the social rented stock in the Netherlands. It is inspired by the question whether the sector may be subject to a residualisation trend. The wider importance of such a phenomenon is that of the social marginalisation of the people concerned in general. Moreover, if the position of the social rented stock can be shown to be deteriorating, it would also illustrate a tendency to social pol…
Revolution in Social Housing in the Netherlands: Possible Effects of New Housing Policies
The social rented sector in the Netherlands has always had a very special status. Unlike many other countries, in the Netherlands this sector has never been regarded as a segment exclusively for low-income households. Consequently, neighbourhoods with large numbers of social rented dwellings have never been areas for low-income households only. Since about 1990, however, the proportion of low-income households in social rented housing has increas…
Ethnic Segregation in the Netherlands: New Patterns, New Policies
An impressive set of welfare state arrangements has kept ethnic segregation and concentration in Dutch cities to a relatively low level. Indices of segregation have also been relatively stable over the last two decades. This does not mean, however, that concentrations of ethnic minority groups are stable. Some types of neighbourhoods seem to have become less important as housing areas for ethnic minority groups, while others are becoming their ma…
Housing allocation and ethnic minority groups: The effects of different housing allocation models on Moroccan households in two Dutch cities
Escaping poverty neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
While patterns of spatial segregation and concentration of ethnic minority groups in European cities have been well documented, more dynamic data on migration have been rare until now. In particular, little is known about the potential for different kinds of households to escape from poverty areas. Escaping these areas can be important in order to escape unwanted housing and living conditions. The analyses in this paper show that in the Netherlan…
Economics (50 works) · Political science (50 works) · Sociology (47 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (43 works) · Geography (40 works) · Economic geography (31 works) · Economic growth (31 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (27 works) · Demographic economics (26 works) · Development economics (19 works)