Amsterdam is a breeding  ground of housing renewal interventions and a growing regional economy as a patchwork of large-scale development projects and infrastructural improvements and the renewing of the inner city . In Amsterdam  experimental methods are recursively used to boost real estate markets and respond to socio-economic change. In this paper three aspects of Amsterdam are defined completely  social, economic and political condition need to be taken into consideration when examining present trends. The city combines a long tradition of social democracy and strong statehood, with entrepreneurial policy trends. Stable social democracy has, on the one hand, resulted in comparatively low levels of segregation and social dislocation despite emerging trends.  Domestic demographic patterns have also changed: there is now a positive net migration with the region and the rest of the country is now positive and a growing number of families staying in the city have propelled demographic growth.

In an earlier City Profile, Kahn and Van der Plas (1999) depicted Amsterdam as a patch work of large-scale development projects and infrastructural improvements, a breeding ground of housing renewal interventions and a growing regional economy. At that time, the city’s main policy concerns were centered around the strengthening of regional cooperation, the dealing with land development during demographic growth, the renewing of the inner city and post-World War II neighborhoods, and positioning Amsterdam in the international marketplace (see also Savitch, Kantor, & Vicari, 2002). Fifteen years later, Amsterdam’s city development model shows continuity with its mid90s policies, as well as certain peculiar and unexpected discontinuities as a result of experimental approaches to urban development, housing and regional politics.