TY - BOOK AU - Wageningen,Anne van AU - Mamadouh,Virginie ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Urban Europe : : Fifty Tales of the City / SN - 9789048535811 AV - HT131 .E8313 2016 PY - 2020/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Urban polices KW - Netherlands KW - Amsterdam KW - Cities and towns KW - European Union countries KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Translation of: EU@Amsterdam : een stedelijke raad : essays over de Europese stad; Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references; Open Access N2 - In Urban Europe, urban researchers and practitioners based in Amsterdam tell the story of the European city, sharing their knowledge of and insights into urban dynamics in short, thought-provoking pieces. Their essays were collected on the occasion of the adoption of the Pact of Amsterdam with an Urban Agenda for the European Union during the Dutch Presidency of the Council in 2016. The fifty essays gathered in this volume present perspectives from diverse academic disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. The authors " including the Mayor of Amsterdam, urban activists, civil servants and academic observers " cover a wide range of topical issues, inviting and encouraging us to rethink citizenship, connectivity, innovation, sustainability and representation as well as the role of cities in administrative and political networks. With the Urban Agenda for the European Union, EU Member States have acknowledged the potential of cities to address the societal challenges of the 21st century. This is part of a larger, global trend. These are all good reasons to learn more about urban dynamics and to understand the challenges that cities have faced in the past and that they currently face. Often but not necessarily taking Amsterdam as an example, the essays in this volume will help you grasp the complexity of urban Europe and identify the challenges your own city is confronting UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66459/ ER -