The weakness of weak ties: Social capital to get ahead among the urban poor in Rotterdam and Amsterdam

Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 105-125

  Blokland, Talja ^a   Noordhoff, Floris ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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