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Dr. W.P.C. (Wouter) van Gent

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Urban Geographies
Photographer: J. Boeve/ De Balie

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: B4.18
Postal address
  • Postbus 15629
    1001 NC Amsterdam
Social media
  • Profile

    About me

    I am an associate professor/ senior lecture at the Urban Geographies group at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and an associate editor for Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG).

    My very first research was in the field of Social Informatics, yet since I became a geographer, I have dedicated my working life to understanding the politics of urban inequality. Initially, this led me to studying housing and urban policies and urban regeneration in postwar housing estates across Europe. It fascinated me that these renewal efforts were often fueled by racialised integration politics and aimed for gentrification. These became important pillars for my quantitative, qualitative and cultural analyses of the politics of urban inequality. Nowadays my research is located at the intersections of:         

    • Housing policy and housing market dynamics
    • Segregation, gentrification and household mobility
    • Representational, symbolic and electoral politics of class
    • Integration, (post)colonialism and racism in cities

     

    Recent publications (selected)

    Wouter van Gent & Cody Hochstenbach (2023) Doorwerking van de slavernij en het koloniale verleden op het gebied van wonen. In: Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie en Racisme, Doorwerking van slavernijverleden; Meervoudige perspectieven op de relatie tussen verleden en heden. Den Haag: Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie en Racisme. 55-62.

    Van Gent, W., Damhuis, R., & Musterd, S. (2023) Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner-occupantsUrban Studiesonline before publication 

    Zorlu, A., & Van Gent, W. (2023) Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility PerspectiveInternational Migration Review, online before publication 

    Van Gent, W., Brugman, G., & De Craene, V. (2023). Navigating (homo) nationalism and heteronormativity; how Turkish-Dutch and Moroccan-Dutch gay/bi men negotiate belonging in AmsterdamGeoforum141, 103743.

    Damhuis, R., & van Gent, W. (2022) The period effects of crisis and recovery on life course and residential mobility of owner-occupantsHousing Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2101626

    For full list of publications, see tab below, and Google Scholar Profile

    Book!

    Boterman, W., & Van Gent, W. (2023). Making the middle-class city: The politics of gentrifying Amsterdam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Over the past 40 years cities in the global North - like London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam - changed from relatively poor and largely working-class cities to cities dominated by the middle class. How could these cities transform this way while being ruled by social democratic parties? Urban and political geographers Willem Boterman and Wouter van Gent from the University of Amsterdam reveal the mechanisms behind these transformations.  ‘Social, spatial and political transformations have come to reinforce each other in feedback loops.’

    From being proud on social rent projects in the 1980s to being proud on prestigious upper middle-class residential complexes 40 years later, like those in the docklands of East-London or Pontsteiger in Amsterdam. This pride in developing ‘luxurious living’ symbolically marks the transformation of cities in the global North, argue Boterman and Van Gent. But how could a city like Amsterdam, that has been ruled by social democratic parties for over a century, and that is internationally famed for its social policies, become a place dominated by middle-class interests and where gentrification sets the tone?

    In their new book ‘Making the Middle-class City’ Boterman and Van Gent present a new model for analyzing socio-spatial urban change and reveal the mechanisms behind the transformations of working-class cities into cities of which its economic base now rests on financial, business and consumption services. Cities where highly educated and increasingly affluent people have come to dominate public, cultural and social life and the urban landscape. ‘It was a contingent process that cannot be reduced to national and global processes alone, as it has been very much a local political affair too.’

  • Publications (full list)

    Journal articles

    Van Gent, W., Damhuis, R., & Musterd, S. (2023) Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner-occupantsUrban Studiesonline before publication 

    Zorlu, A., & Van Gent, W. (2023) Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility PerspectiveInternational Migration Review, online before publication 

    Van Gent, W., Brugman, G., & De Craene, V. (2023). Navigating (homo) nationalism and heteronormativity; how Turkish-Dutch and Moroccan-Dutch gay/bi men negotiate belonging in AmsterdamGeoforum141, 103743.

    Damhuis, R., & van Gent, W. (2022) The period effects of crisis and recovery on life course and residential mobility of owner-occupantsHousing Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2101626

    Singelenberg, M. & W. van Gent (2020) Red light gentrification in Soho, London and De Wallen, AmsterdamJournal of Housing and the Built Environment, 35(3), 723 - 742.

    Van Gent, W. & C. Hochstenbach (2020) The neo-liberal politics and socio-spatial implications of Dutch post-crisis social housing policiesInternational Journal of Housing Policy, 20(1), 56-172.

    Van Gent ,W., M. Das, S. Musterd (2019) Sociocultural, economic and ethnic homogeneity in residential mobility and spatial sorting among couples, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51(4), 891-912. 

    Piekut, A., G. Pryce & W. van Gent (2019) Segregation in the Twenty First Century: Processes, Complexities and Future Directions. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 110(3), 225-234.

    Van Gent, W. & W. Boterman (2019) "Gentrification of the changing state", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 110(1), 35-46.

    Van Gent, W., C. Hochstenbach, J. Uitermark (2018) "Exclusion as urban policy: the Dutch ‘Act on Extraordinary Measures for Urban Problems' ", Urban Studies, 55(11), 2337-2353.

    Van Gent, W. & R. Jaffe (2017) "Normalizing urban inequality: Cinematic imaginaries of difference in postcolonial Amsterdam", Social & Cultural Geography, 18(4), 553-572.

    Uitermark, J., C. Hochstenbach, W. van Gent (2017) "The statistical politics of exceptional territories", Political Geography, 57, 60-70.

    Bailey, N., W.P.C. van Gent, S. Musterd (2017) "Remaking urban segregation: Processes of income sorting and neighbourhood change", Population, Place and Space, 23(3), e2013.

    Van Gent, W.P.C., W.R. Boterman, M.W. van Grondelle (2016) "Surveying the fault lines in social tectonics; Neighbourhood boundaries in a socially-mixed renewal area", Housing, Theory and Society, 33(3), 247-267.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. & S. Musterd (2016) "Class, migrants, and the European city: Spatial impacts of structural changes in early twenty-first century Amsterdam", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(6), 893-912.

    Musterd, S., W.P.C. van Gent, M. Das, J.J. Latten (2016) “Adaptive behaviour in urban space; Residential mobility in response to Social Distance”, Urban Studies. 53(2), 227-246.

    Savini, F., W.R. Boterman, W.P.C. van Gent, S. Majoor (2016) "Amsterdam in the 21st century: geography, housing, spatial development and politics", Cities, 52, 103-113.

    Hochstenbach, C & W.P.C. van Gent (2015) "An anatomy of gentrification processes: Variegating causes of neighbourhood change", Environment and Planning A, 47(7), 1480-1501.

    Van Gent, W.P.C., E.F. Jansen, J.H.F. Smits (2014) "Right-wing radical populism in city and suburbs; An electoral geography of Partij Voor de Vrijheid in the Netherlands", Urban Studies, 51(9), 1775-1794.

    Boterman, W.R. & W.P.C. van Gent (2014) "Housing liberalization and gentrification; The social effects of tenure conversions in Amsterdam", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 105(2), 140-160.

    Van Gent, W.P.C., V.D. Mamadouh, H.H. van der Wusten (2013) "Political reactions to the Euro crisis: Cross-national variations and rescaling issues in elections and popular protests", Eurasian Geography and Economics, 54(2), 135-161.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2013) "Neo-liberalization, housing institutions and variegated gentrification; How the 'third wave' broke in Amsterdam", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(2), 503-522.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. & S. Musterd (2013) "The unintended effects of urban and housing policies on integration: 'White discontent' in the Dutch city", Geography Research Forum, 33(1), 64-90 .

    Teernstra, A.B. & W.P.C. van Gent (2012) "Puzzling patterns in neighborhood change: Upgrading and downgrading in highly-regulated urban housing markets ", Urban Geography, 33(1), 91-119.

    Van Gent, W. & S. Musterd (2012) "Les transformations urbaines et l'émergence des partis populistes de la droite radicale en Europe; Le cas de la ville de La Haya", Hérodote, Revue de géographie et de géopolitique, no.144, 99-112.

    Aalbers, M.B., W.P.C. van Gent, F.M. Pinkster (2011) "Comparing deconcentrating poverty policies in the United States and the Netherlands: A critical reply to Stal and Zuberi", Cities, 28(3), 260-264.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2010) "Housing policy as a lever for change? The politics of welfare, assets and tenure", Housing Studies, 25(5), 735-753.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2010) "Housing context and social transformation strategies in neighbourhood regeneration in Western European cities", International Journal of Housing Policy, 10(1), 63-87.

    Van Gent, W.P.C., S. Musterd, W. Ostendorf (2009) "Bridging the social divide? Reflections on current Dutch neighbourhood policy", Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 24(3), 357-368.

    Van Gent, W.P.C., S. Musterd, W. Ostendorf (2009) "Disentangling neighbourhood problems; Area-based interventions in Western European cities", Urban Research & Practice, 2(1), 53-67.

    Books

    Boterman, W., & Van Gent, W. (2023). Making the middle-class city: The politics of gentrifying Amsterdam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Musterd, S., R. Damhuis, C. Hochstenbach, W. van Gent (2019) De regio als garderobe; Huishoudens, levensfasen en woonmilieus in de Nederlandse metropool. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Musterd, S., A. Teernstra, W. van Gent, Th. Dukes (2015) De buurt als jas; Dynamische huishoudens in een veranderlijke stad. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2009)  Realistic regeneration; Housing contexts and social outcomes of neighbourhood interventions in Western European cities. PhD Thesis, Amsterdam : Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam.

    Book chapters

    Van Gent, W. & C. Hochstenbach (forthcoming) "The impact of gentrification on social and ethnic segregation." In: S. Musterd, (ed.), Handbook on Urban Segregation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

    Van Gent, W., W. Boterman, M. Hoekstra (2020) "State-sponsored gentrification or social regeneration? Symbolic politics and neighborhood intervention in an Amsterdam working class neighborhood." in: K.B. Anacker, M. T. Nguyen, D.P. Varady (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning. London: Routledge, pp.330-343.

    Damhuis, R., Van Gent, W., Hochstenbach, C., & Musterd, S. (2019) "The regional and local dynamics of life course and housing." In: M. Moos (ed.), A Research Agenda for Housing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.165-181.

    Musterd, S. & W.P.C. van Gent (2016) "Changing welfare context and income segregation in Amsterdam and its metropolitan area, 2004–2011." In: T. Tammaru, S. Marcińczak, M. van Ham & S. Musterd (Eds.), Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities; East meets West. (London: Routledge), pp. 55-79.

    Van Gent, W., S. Musterd, E. Veldhuizen (2014) "De ongedeelde stad onder druk; De veranderende geografie van armoede in Amsterdam, 2004-2012." In: L. Michon & J. Slot (Eds.),  Armoede in Amsterdam; Een stadsbrede aanpak van hardnekkige armoede. (Amsterdam: Bureau Onderzoek en Statistiek van de gemeente Amsterdam), pp. 47-57.

    Musterd, S. & W.P.C. van Gent (2012) "Residential location and housing moves of immigrants and natives in the Amsterdam metropolitan context " in: N. Finney & G. Catney (eds.)  Minority internal migration in Europe (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing), pp 89-110.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2010) "Managing assets and risks through ownership and regeneration: Housing policies in the Netherlands", in: J. Doling, M. Elsinga, R. Ronald (eds.)  Home ownership; Getting in, getting from, getting out, Part III (Amsterdam: IOS Press), pp 101-118.

    Van Gent, W. (2009) "De Noodzaak van ontrafeling van problemen in stedelijk beleid: het 40-wijkenprogramma" in: S. Musterd & W. Ostendorf (eds.)  Problemen in wijken of probleemwijken , Assen: Van Gorcum.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2009) "Estates of content; Regeneration and neighbourhood satisfaction", in: R. van Kempen, S. Musterd, R. Rowlands (eds.)  Mass housing in Europe: Multiple faces of development, change & response (Hampshire: Palgrave), pp 77-100.

    Beckers, D., W.van Gent, J. Iedema, J. de Haan (2005) "Effects of ICT on social cohesion: The Cyburg Case" in P. van den Besselaar & S. Koizumi (eds.): Digital cities 2003, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag). pp. 391- 406. 

    Schreiber, A.Th., I. I. Blok, D. Carlier, W.P.C. van Gent, J. Hokstam, U. Roos (2002) "A mini-experiment in semantic annotation" in I. Horrocks & J. Hendler (eds.) The semantic web - ISWC 2002, number 2342 in lecture notes in computer science. (Berlin : Springer-Verlag).

    Reports

    Van Gent, W., A.M Ntarladima, B. van Vulpen, C. Hochstenbach, M. Giezen, W. Boterman, F. Pinkster, V. Harris, D.J. Stenvers (2023) Gezond wonen in de regio Amsterdam; Woningmarkt, omgevingskwaliteit, gezondheid, en ongelijkheid in de metropoolregio. Amsterdam: GPIO, Universiteit van Amsterdam

    Hochstenbach, C., J. Uitermark, W. van Gent (2015) Evaluatie effecten Wet bijzondere maatregelen grootstedelijke problematiek ('Rotterdamwet') in Rotterdam. Amsterdam: AISSR Universiteit van Amsterdam.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2008) The context of neighbourhood regeneration; A comparative study of nine neighbourhoods undergoing physical and social economic regeneration, Gouda: Habiforum.

    Book reviews

    Van Gent, W. (2023) The Commodification Gap; Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg. Bernt, Matthias. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 114(1): 60-61.

    Van Gent, W. (2019) "A Review of ‘Handbook of gentrification studies’, Edited by Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips", International Journal of Housing Policy, 19(1): 138-141

    Van Gent, W. (2018) "Recensie: Een Ongetemde Buurt, Pieter Tops", Rooilijn 51(4), 318-319.

    Van Gent, W. (2016) "Book review: Planetary Gentrification", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 107(5), 652–653.

    Van Gent, W. (2015) "Book review: There goes the gayborhood?", Urban Studies. 52(12), 2287-2289.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2015) "R.P. Hohmann: Regenerating deprived urban areas",  Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30(1), 175-177.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2013) "Book review: Mixed communities; Gentrification by stealth?",  Urban Studies,50(6), 1311-1313. 

    Van Gent, W. (2013) "De wraak van de buurt; Recensie: Robert J. Sampson, Great American city" Rooilijn, 46(6), 469-472.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2012) "A review of 'Politics of home; Belonging and nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States'",  International Journal of Housing Policy, 12(2), p. 250-252.

    Van Gent, W.P.C. (2011) "Book review: Roads and ruins; The symbolic landscape of fascist Rome", Urban Studies, 48(8) , p. 1757 - 1759  .

    Van Gent, W. (2010) "Book review: Jan Willem Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks and Mies van Niekerk (Eds.), City in sight: Dutch dealings with urban change (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009)", Journal of Urban Affairs,  32(5), p. 652-654.

    Van Gent, W.(2009) "Bewaakt de verworpenen der steden; Boekrecensie: L. Wacquant, 2008, 'Urban outcasts', Cambridge: Polity",  Rooilijn, 42(1), p.71-73.

    Dutch academic papers

    Musterd, S, C. Hochstenbach, W. Van Gent, R. Damhuis (2019) ‘De regio als garderobe; gevaar bij buurtverschillen’. Ruimte + Wonen, no. 1: 90-98.

    Hoekstra, M., W. van Gent & W. Boterman (2018) "Kwartiermaken als symbolische politiek in overheidsgestuurde gentrificatie." Sociologos, 39(3): 242-262.

    Boterman, W. & W. van Gent (2015) "Segregatie in Amsterdam: Op weg naar een nieuwe ongelijkheid." S+RO Stedenbouw en Ruimtelijke Ordening, nr. 3, 34-39.  

    Latten J., Das M., Musterd S., Van Gent W. (2014) "Te veel of te weinig inkomen voor de buurt? Dan een grotere kans om te verhuizen."  CBS Bevolkingstrends 2014, April, URL: 
    http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/bevolkingstrends/ .

    Van Grondelle, M. & W. van Gent (2014) "Wie gaat met wie om in Geuzenveld?"  Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 20(2), 47-54.

    Van Gent, W. & S. Musterd (2012) "Een stadsgeografie van het leven",  Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 18 (3), 50-55.

    Van Gent, W. & S. Musterd (2010) "Isolement en angst: PVV in Haagse buurten bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2010",  B en M ,  Tijdschrift voor  Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 37 (2), 140-153.

    Van Gent, W., S. Musterd & W. Ostendorf (2007) "Van prachtwijken naar probleemcumulatiewijken; Een reactieopminister Vogelaar en anderen",  Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 13 (6), p 41- 43.

    Van Gent, W., S. Musterd & W. Ostendorf (2007) "Van probleemwijk naar prachtwijk; Over de problemen van een wijkgerichte aanpak",  Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 13 (4), p 44- 50.

    Popular and professional publications

    Wouter van Gent & Cody Hochstenbach (2023) Doorwerking van de slavernij en het koloniale verleden op het gebied van wonen. In: Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie en Racisme, Doorwerking van slavernijverleden; Meervoudige perspectieven op de relatie tussen verleden en heden. Den Haag: Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie en Racisme. 55-62.

    Wouter van Gent & Cody Hochstenbach (2019) "De nieuwe stedelijke geografie: ongelijkheid en segregatie." Geografie. Online artikel. URL: https://geografie.nl/artikel/de-nieuwe-stedelijke-geografie-ongelijkheid-en-segregatie

    Cody Hochstenbach & Wouter van Gent (2018) ‘Betaalbaar wonen verder weggedrukt: De sociale en ruimtelijke implicaties van de Woningwet 2015’. In: Commissie-Van Bochove, Evaluatie Woningwet: Kansen en belemmeringen voor de maatschappelijke opgave van woningcorporaties (n.p.). Den Haag: Aedes.

    Van Gent, W. (2017) "Pays-Bas: Une nouvelle approche des politiques urbaines", Constructif,  No 46, 10-13.

    Cody Hochstenbach, Wouter van Gent & Marthe Singelenberg (2017) “Stedelijk verzet uit onverwachte hoek.” AGORA, 33(2), 4-7.

    Ellen van Bueren, Agnes Franzen & Wouter van Gent (2017) “Next living; Wonen komt bij het Rijk weer door de voordeur.” Ruimte+Wonen, 98(1), 4-13.

    Sako Musterd, Cody Hochstenbach, Willem Boterman & Wouter van Gent (2016) "Voorkom scherpe segregatie in grote stad" De Volkskrant, 2 mei, p. 18. (http://www.volkskrant.nl/opinie/voorkom-scherpe-segregatie-in-grote-stad~a4292900/)

    Ellen van Bueren & Wouter van Gent (2016) "Next Living; Opgaven voor het wonen in toekomstig Nederland" Wij Maken Nederland! URL: https://wijmakennederland.nl/bijdrage/next-living-longread/

    Wouter van Gent (2015) "Gentrification is het einde van de eerlijke stad." Stadsleven Webmagazine URL: http://www.stadslevenamsterdam.nl/2015/06/18/gentrification-is-het-einde-van-de-eerlijke-stad-essay-wouter-van-gent/

    Wouter van Gent & Fenne Pinkster (2014) "Onvrede is breder dan Noord."  Het Parool, 12 Juli, p.38. 

    Van Gent, W. (2013) "Amsterdam condamnée à la densification"  Constructif,  No 35, 40-44.

    Wouter van Gent & Sako Musterd (2013) "Een nieuw levensfase, een nieuw woonmilieu"  Nova Terra,speciale editie 'kennis voor krachtige buurten', Juni, p. 4-8.

    Wouter van Gent (2013) "Ver-yupping dodelijk voor stad"  MUG Magazine, mei, p. 21.

    Wouter van Gent (2012) "Wilders bedrijft toppolitiek"  De Volkskrant, 1 March, p. 31.

    Wouter van Gent (2012) "PVV steun in ruimtelijk perspectief"  #KijkSW, 3, p 5-6.

    Wouter van Gent (2011) "Stelling: Gentrification holt Amsterdam uit"  Rooilijn, 44(1), p. 7.

    Annalies Teernstra & Wouter van Gent (2010) "Opkomst en neergang van Amsterdamse buurten"  GPIO Nieuwskrant, 18, p. 5-6.

    Wouter van Gent (2009) "Amsterdam2040: wel bankiers, geen arbeiders"  Het Parool, 21 september, p 22.

    Matthieu Permentier & Wouter van Gent (2008) "Wat kun je aan een slechte buurtreputatie doen?", in: A. Ouwehand, R. van Kempen, R. Kleinhans and H. Visscher (Eds)  Van Wijken Weten; Beleid en Praktijk inde Stedelijke Vernieuwing, pp. 68- 79. Amsterdam/ Delft: IOS Press/ Onderzoeksinstituut OTB.

    Wim Ostendorf, Sako Musterd en Wouter van Gent (2007) "Prachtwijken, maar voor wie?" (2007) NRC Handelsblad, 9 October.

    Wouter van Gent (2007) "Crossing borders: Optima Community Association",  A5, 21, p 15.

    Wouter van Gent (2007) "Diamantjes in ringetjes passen",  AGORA, 23 (3), p 24-27.

    Wouter van Gent (2007) " Bouwstenen buurttevredenheid in Europees perspectief, een goede woning scoort altijd",  Aedes Magazine, nr. 4, p 60- 63.

    Wouter van Gent (2007) "Naoorlogse probleemwijken in Stockholm",  Rooilijn, 40 (1), p 30- 47.

    Wouter van Gent (2006) "Terreur, symboliek en ontwikkeling",  AGORA, 22 (1), p 12-15.

    Wouter van Gent (2004) "NYC 2012 needs a beach",  The Wagner Planner, October/ November.

  • Teaching

    Coordination

    • Chair of the Programme Committee Bachelor Human Geography and Planning
    • Chair of the Programme Committee for the Master Human Geography
    • Chair of the Programme Committee for the Master Urban and Regional Planning
    • Coordinator bachelors honours programme for Geography and Planning

    Current courses

    • Geographies of Inequality (Bachelor) - coordinator
    • Contemporary Urban Transformations (Research Master Urban Studies)
    • Urban Dynamics (Bachelor) 
  • Publications

    2023

    2022

    2020

    • Singelenberg, M., & van Gent, W. P. C. (2020). Red light gentrification in Soho, London and De Wallen, Amsterdam. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 35, 723–742. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-020-09753-5
    • van Gent, W., & Hochstenbach, C. (2020). The impact of gentrification on social and ethnic segregation. In S. Musterd (Ed.), Handbook of Urban Segregation (pp. 306-324). (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115605.00026
    • van Gent, W., & Hochstenbach, C. (2020). The neo-liberal politics and socio-spatial implications of Dutch post-crisis social housing policies. International Journal of Housing Policy, 20(1), 156-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2019.1682234 [details]
    • van Gent, W., Boterman, W., & Hoekstra, M. (2020). State-sponsored gentrification or social regeneration? Symbolic politics and neighborhood intervention in an Amsterdam working-class neighborhood. In K. B. Anacker, M. T. Nguyen, & D. P. Varady (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning (pp. 330-343). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642338 [details]

    2019

    2018

    • Hoekstra, M., van Gent, W., & Boterman, W. (2018). Kwartiermaken als symbolische politiek in overheidsgestuurde gentrificatie. Sociologos, 39(3), 242-262. [details]
    • van Gent, W., Hochstenbach, C., & Uitermark, J. (2018). Exclusion as urban policy: The Dutch 'Act on Extraordinary Measures for Urban Problems'. Urban Studies, 55(11), 2337-2353 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017717214 [details]

    2017

    • Bailey, N., van Gent, W. P. C., & Musterd, S. (2017). Remaking Urban Segregation: Processes of Income Sorting and Neighbourhood Change. Population Space and Place, 23(3), [e2013]. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2013 [details]
    • Uitermark, J., Hochstenbach, C., & van Gent, W. (2017). The statistical politics of exceptional territories. Political Geography, 57, 60-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.11.011 [details]
    • van Gent, W., & Jaffe, R. (2017). Normalizing urban inequality: Cinematic imaginaries of difference in postcolonial Amsterdam = Normalisation de l’inégalité urbaine: imaginaires cinématiques de la différence dans l’Amsterdam postcolonial = La normalización de la desigualdad urbana: imaginarios cinematográficos de diferencia en la Ámsterdam poscolonial. Social & Cultural Geography, 18(4), 553-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1197303 [details]

    2016

    • Musterd, S., & van Gent, W. (2016). Changing welfare context and income segregation in Amsterdam and its metropolitan area. In T. Tammaru, S. Marcińczak, M. van Ham, & S. Musterd (Eds.), Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities: East meets West (pp. 55-79). (Regions and cities; Vol. 89). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758879 [details]
    • Musterd, S., van Gent, W. P. C., Das, M., & Latten, J. (2016). Adaptive behaviour in urban space: Residential mobility in response to social distance. Urban Studies, 53(2), 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014562344 [details]
    • Savini, F., Boterman, W. R., van Gent, W. P. C., & Majoor, S. (2016). Amsterdam in the 21st century: geography, housing, spatial development and politics. Cities : The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 52, 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.017 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., Boterman, W. R., & van Grondelle, M. W. (2016). Surveying the Fault Lines in Social Tectonics; Neighbourhood Boundaries in a Socially-mixed Renewal Area. Housing, Theory and Society, 33(3), 247-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2015.1134650 [details]
    • van Gent, W., & Musterd, S. (2016). Class, migrants, and the European city: spatial impacts of structural changes in early twenty-first century Amsterdam. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(6), 893-912. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1126092 [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Boterman, W. R., & van Gent, W. P. C. (2014). Housing liberalisation and gentrification: the social effects of tenure conversions in Amsterdam. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 105(2), 140-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12050 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., Jansen, E. F., & Smits, J. H. F. (2014). Right-wing radical populism in city and suburbs: an electoral geography of the Partij Voor de Vrijheid in the Netherlands. Urban Studies, 51(9), 1775-1794. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013505889 [details]
    • van Grondelle, M., & van Gent, W. (2014). Wie gaat met wie om in Geuzenveld? Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 20(2), 47-54. [details]

    2013

    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2013). Neoliberalization, housing institutions and variegated gentrification: how the ‘third wave’ broke in Amsterdam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(2), 503-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01155.x [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., & Musterd, S. (2013). Unintended effects of urban and housing policies on integration: "white" discontent in the Dutch city. Geography Research Forum, 33, 64-90. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., Mamadouh, V. D., & van der Wusten, H. H. (2013). Political reactions to the euro crisis: cross-national variations and rescaling issues in elections and popular protests. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 54(2), 135-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2013.811362 [details]

    2012

    • Musterd, S., & van Gent, W. (2012). Residential location and housing moves of immigrants and natives in the Amsterdam metropolitan context. In N. Finney, & G. Catney (Eds.), Minority internal migration in Europe (pp. 89-109). (International population studies). Ashgate. [details]
    • Teernstra, A. B., & van Gent, W. P. C. (2012). Puzzling patterns in neighborhood change: upgrading and downgrading in highly regulated urban housing markets. Urban Geography, 33(1), 91-119. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.33.1.91 [details]
    • van Gent, W., & Musterd, S. (2012). Een stadsgeografie van het leven. Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, 2012(3), 50-55. [details]

    2011

    • Aalbers, M. B., van Gent, W. P. C., & Pinkster, F. M. (2011). Comparing deconcentrating poverty policies in the United States and the Netherlands: a critical reply to Stal and Zuberi. Cities : The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 28(3), 260-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2010.08.003 [details]

    2010

    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2010). Housing context and social transformation strategies in neighbourhood regeneration in Western European cities. European Journal of Housing Policy, 10(1), 63-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616710903565712 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2010). Housing policy as a lever for change? the politics of welfare, assets and tenure. Housing Studies, 25(5), 735-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2010.483588 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2010). Managing assets and risks through ownership and regeneration: housing policies in the Netherlands. In J. Doling, M. Elsinga, & R. Ronald (Eds.), Home ownership: getting in, getting from, getting out (Vol. III, pp. 101-118). (Housing and Urban Policy Studies; Vol. 34). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-549-5-i [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., & Musterd, S. (2010). Isolement en Angst: PVV in Haagse buurten bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2010. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 37(2), 140-153. [details]

    2009

    • van Gent, W. (2009). De noodzaak van ontrafeling van problemen in stedelijk beleid: Het 40-wijkenprogramma. In S. Musterd, & W. Ostendorf (Eds.), Problemen in wijken of probleemwijken? (pp. 85-95). Assen: Van Gorcum. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2009). Estates of content: regenerations and neighbourhood satisfaction. In R. Rowlands, S. Musterd, & R. van Kempen (Eds.), Mass housing in Europe: multiple faces of development, change and response (pp. 77-100). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., Musterd, S., & Ostendorf, W. (2009). Disentangling neighbourhood problems: Area-based interventions in Western European cities. Urban Research & Practice, 2(1), 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535060902727066 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., Musterd, S., & Ostendorf, W. J. M. (2009). Bridging the social divide? reflections on current Dutch neighbourhood policy. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 24(3), 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-009-9144-2 [details]

    2023

    • van Gent, W. P. C., Ntarladima, A. M., van Vulpen, B., Hochstenbach, C., Giezen, M., Boterman, W. R., Pinkster, F. M., Harris, V., & Stenvers, D. J. (2023). Gezond wonen in de regio Amsterdam: Woningmarkt, omgevingskwaliteit, gezondheid, en ongelijkheid in de metropoolregio.

    2020

    2019

    • Damhuis, R., van Gent, W., Hochstenbach, C., & Musterd, S. (2019). The Regional and Local Dynamics of Life Course and Housing. In M. Moos (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Housing (pp. 165-181). (Elgar Research Agendas). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116510.00018 [details]

    2018

    • van Gent, W. (2018). Een geschiedenis van twee volksbuurten: [Bespreking van: P. Tops (2018) Een ongetemde buurt : achterstand, ondernemingszin en criminaliteit in een volksbuurt]. Rooilijn, 51(4), 318-319. [details]

    2017

    2016

    • van Gent, W. (2016). [Review of: L. Lees, H.B. Shin, E. López-Morales (2016) Planetary Gentrification] . Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 107(5), 652-653. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12220 [details]

    2015

    • Boterman, W., & van Gent, W. (2015). Segregatie in Amsterdam. Stedebouw & Ruimtelijke Ordening, 2015(3), 34-39. [details]
    • Musterd, S., Teernstra, A., van Gent, W., & Dukes, T. (2015). De buurt als jas: dynamische huishoudens in de veranderlijke stad. Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2015). [Review of: R.P. Hohmann (2013) Regenerating deprived urban areas: a cross-national analysis of area-based initiatives]. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30(1), 175-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-014-9408-3 [details]

    2014

    2013

    • van Gent, W. (2013). Amsterdam condamnée à la densification. Constructif, 35, 40-44. [details]

    2012

    • van Gent, W., & Musterd, S. (2012). Les transformations urbaines et l'émergence des partis populistes de la droite radicale en Europe: le cas de la ville de La Haye. Herodote, 144, 99-112. https://doi.org/10.3917/her.144.0099 [details]

    2008

    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2008). The Context of Neighbourhood Regeneration; A Comparative Study of Nine Neighbourhoods Undergoing Physical and Social Economic Regeneration. Gouda: Habiforum.

    2023

    2019

    2017

    • van Bueren, E., Franzen, A., & van Gent, W. (2017). Next Living: Wonen komt bij het Rijk weer door de voordeur. Ruimte en Wonen, 98(1), 4-13. [details]
    • van Gent, W. (2017). Pays-Bas: une nouvelle approche des politiques urbaines. Constructif, 46. [details]

    2016

    2015

    • Hochstenbach, C., Uitermark, J., & van Gent, W. (2015). Evaluatie effecten Wet bijzondere maatregelen grootstedelijke problematiek ("Rotterdamwet") in Rotterdam. Amsterdam: AISSR, Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]
    • van Gent, W. (2015). [Review of: A. Ghaziani (2014) There goes the gayborhood?]. Urban Studies, 52(12), 2287-2289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015590952 [details]

    2013

    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2013). De wraak van de buurt [Bespreking van: R.J. Sampson (2012) Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect]. Rooilijn, 46(6), 469-472. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2013). Mixed communities: gentrification by stealth? [Review of: G. Bridge, T. Butler (2012) Mixed communities: gentrification by stealth?]. Urban Studies, 50(6), 1311-1313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013478668 [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C., & Musterd, S. (2013). Een nieuwe levensfase, een nieuw woonmilieu. Nova Terra, special(juni 2013), 4-8. http://issuu.com/platform31/docs/nt_juni2013/6 [details]

    2012

    2011

    • van Gent, W. (2011). Stelling: Gentrification holt Amsterdam uit. Wouter van Gent reageert. Rooilijn, 44(1), 7. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2011). [Review of: P. Baxa (2010) Roads and ruins: the symbolic landscape of fascist Rome]. Urban Studies, 48(8), 1757-1759. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011403333 [details]

    2010

    2009

    • van Gent, W. (2009). Bewaakt de verworpenen der steden [Review of: L. Wacquant (2008) Urban outcasts: A comparative sociology of advanced marginality]. Rooilijn, 42(1), 71-73. [details]

    2008

    • Permentier, M., & van Gent, W. (2008). Wat kun je aan een slechte buurtreputatie doen? In A. Ouwehand, R. van Kempen, R. Kleinhans, & H. Visscher (Eds.), Van wijken weten: Beleid en praktijk in de stedelijke vernieuwing (pp. 68-79). Amsterdam/ Delft: IOS Press/ Onderzoeksinstituut OTB. [details]
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2008). The context of neighbourhood regeneration in Western Europe. A comparative study of nine neighbourhoods undergoing physical and social economic regeneration. Gouda/Amsterdam: Habiforum/AMIDSt. [details]

    2016

    • van Gent, W. P. C., Musterd, S., Das, M., & Latten, J. J. (2016). Residential location and spatial sorting among income-gender balanced couples. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers 2016, San Francisco, United States.

    2012

    • van Gent, W. P. C., Jansen, E. F., & Smits, J. H. F. (2012). Right-wing Radical Populist Party Support in and around the City: an Urban Electoral Geography of PVV voting during the 2010 Dutch Parliamentary Elections. 263-264. Abstract from Urban Affairs Association 42nd Annual Meeting. http://www.urbanaffairsassociation.org/pdfs/2012_abstracts.pdf

    2011

    • Musterd, S., & van Gent, W. P. C. (2011). Internal migration of first and second generation immigrant categories in Dutch urban regions. Paper presented at seminar ‘Minority Internal Migration in Europe’.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (2011). Urban renewal and social mixing in Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam. Paper presented at Seminar “Urban Renewal Projects in Europe”, .
    • van Gent, W. P. C., & Boterman, W. R. (2011). Gentrification in Amsterdam: housing policy, tenure transitions and changing neighbourhoods. Paper presented at Seminar “Gentrification in the Netherlands: A process of change and a changing process", .
    • van Gent, W. P. C., & Musterd, S. (2011). Mobility patterns of immigrant households. Paper presented at RC-21 Annual Conference.

    Membership / relevant position

    • van Gent, W. (2016-2017). Member of advisory committee research project ‘Sterke Schouders’ (researchers W. Doff and M. van der Sluis; commissioned by Municipality of Rotterdam), Gemeente Rotterdam.

    Media appearance

    • van Gent, W. P. C. (09-10-2015). AmsterdamFM -Ritme van de Stad [Radio] Amsterdam, AmsterdamFM. AmsterdamFM -Ritme van de Stad.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (24-09-2015). Straten van Amsterdam: Molukkenstraat [Television] Amsterdam, AT5. Straten van Amsterdam: Molukkenstraat.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (22-09-2015). RTVNH-Radio [Radio] Amsterdam, RTVNH-Radio. RTVNH-Radio.

    Journal editor

    • van Gent, W. (editor) (2015-2020). Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • van Gent, W. (speaker) (24-11-2016). Interventions in deprived neighbourhoods in post -austerity Dutch cities: pushing gentrification and legislating exclusion, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow.
    • van Gent, W. (speaker) (17-11-2016). Sexuality in human geography; Perspective, methods and future directions, Sexuality@uva, Amsterdam.
    • van Gent, W. (speaker) (9-6-2016). Digging the City #4 Urban Public Spaces, Digging the city (Volksvlijt 2016), OBA Bibliotheek Amsterdam.
    • Hochstenbach, C. (keynote speaker), Uitermark, J. L. (speaker) & van Gent, W. (speaker) (17-5-2016). Lezing 10 jaar Rotterdamwet: de effecten, Kenniswerkplaats Leefbare Wijken, Hogeschool InHolland Rotterdam.
    • van Gent, W. (speaker) (28-2-2016). Beleid en gentrification, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving.
    • van Gent, W. (speaker) (13-1-2016). (Self-help) housing and gentrification, The Inclusive City?, Amsterdam.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (invited speaker), Bailey, N. (invited speaker) & Musterd, S. (invited speaker) (12-10-2015). Re-making Urban Inequality: Processes of Income sorting and Neighbourhood Change, invited for workshop during conference “Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings”, Sheffield.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (invited speaker) (6-10-2015). Gentrification in the Netherlands, Public seminar, following a lecture by Prof. Loretta Lees, Radboud Nijmegen.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (invited speaker) (16-6-2014). Panel member in KennisCafé: De ideale stad, Kenniscafé, organised by De Balie, KNAW, Nemo and Volkskrant, De Balie, Amsterdam.
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (invited speaker) (1-6-2012). "Verkoop van huurwoningen in Amsterdamse buurten", presentatie Amsterdamse Federatie voor Woningcorporaties (met Willem Boterman), Amsterdam.

    Others

    • van Gent, W. (organiser), Boterman, W. (organiser) & Bontje, M. (organiser) (10-2019). The European City in the early 21st Century, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. (participant) (14-1-2019). Consultation meeting with Amsterdam Alderman of Housing, Laurens Ivens, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Verloo, N. (chair), van Gent, W. (member of programme committee) & Kamphuisen, H. R. (member of programme committee) (15-6-2016). New democracy, Amsterdam. Public Debate on New Urban Renewal (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. (participant) (18-5-2016). Red de middenklasse!, Amsterdam. Panel member (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (organiser) & Boersema, J. (organiser) (29-8-2015). ISA-RC21 Conference, Urbino, Urbino. Workshop: The Politics of Race in the Gentrification Process (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Majoor, S. (organiser) & van Gent, W. P. C. (organiser) (19-6-2014). Symposium on new forms of neighbourhood renewal, Amsterdam. Bottom-up stedelijke vernieuwing Amsterdam-Noord gefilmd (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (organiser) (7-1-2014). Symposium (main speakers: Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Nick Schuermans), Amsterdam. Mobility and residential practices in the unequal city of Cape Town, South Africa (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (organiser) (20-6-2012). Slotconferentie Platform Corpovenista 'Wijzer in de Wijk', Rotterda,. Organized workshop "Veranderende huishoudens en buurten; dynamiek in de stad" (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Gent, W. P. C. (organiser) (2011). Conferentie Platform Corpovenista, Amsterdam. Organized workshop "Veranderende huishoudens en functies van woonmilieus" (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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