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DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000053905 © 2003 Urban Studies Journal Limited 'Social Mixing' and the Management of Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods: The Dutch Policy of Urban Restructuring RevisitedDepartment of Geography and Planning, University of Amsterdam, Minervalaan 17b, 1077 NJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, j.uitermark{at}frw.uva.nl The Dutch government currently pursues a comprehensive and ambitious policy of 'social mixing' in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The second section of this paper suggests that it has as yet not been adequately explained why the Dutch government pursues this so-called restructuring policy. The third section develops an approach derived from regulation theory that potentially helps to decipher the forces behind the Dutch restructuring policy. It is argued that planning practices and discourses should be analysed in relation to the dynamics of the regulatory framework in which they are embedded. The remainder of the paper uses this approach to give an alternative account of the Dutch restructuring policy, suggesting that it represents an attempt to facilitate the social management of disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Thus, it serves to mitigate the social effects of the problematic integration of ethnic minorities and facilitates a national city-oriented growth strategy.
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