Urban Ethnic Encounters The Spatial Consequences

• Main Authors: Colombijn, Freek, Erdentug, Aygen
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2002; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration
• Subjects: City planning; Ethnic neighbourhoods; Ethnic relations; Interethnic relations; Neighbourhoods; Segregation; Social relations; Social space; Urban Geography; Urban planning; Urban Sociology; Urban space; Urban Studies; Toronto CMA; Baqa Al Gharbiyye; Philadelphia Chinatown; Hsinchu Science Park; Arab Local Governments; Elite Neighbourhoods; Albuquerque Tribune; Arab Towns; Dense; HSIP; Urban Ethnic Encounters; Bamboo Village; Young Men; CSI; Residential Segregation; Word Of Mouth; Face To Face; Inter-ethnic Relations; USA; Harald; Pe Rc; Ambon City; Census; Korea Town; Chinese Communities
• ISBN: 0415280850; 9780415280853
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203218778

Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations in cities and countries around the globe. Unlike most ethnographies in which authors write about the 'other' in faraway places, the majority of the contributors have studied their own society. The case studies are from four different continents. Material is presented from diverse locations such as the cities of Toronto, Philadelphia, Vienna, Beirut, Jakarta, Tehran, Osaka and Albuquerque, and the countries of Israel, Brazil and Taiwan, presents a unique opportunity for comparative analysis of ethnicity and spatial patterns. From this wealth of material important inter-cultural conclusions can be made about urban ethnic diversity. Aygen Erdentug is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Freek Colombijn is a lecturer at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Part 1: The Macro Level Analysis of Urban Ethnic Encounters: Enclaves and hte Zones of the Cities Part 2: The Meso Level Analysis of Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Neighbourhoods of the Cities Part 3: The Micro Level Analysis of Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Streets and the Squares of the Cities 'This is a fascinating and timely book' - Peter Somerville, University of lincolnshire and Humberside '...this book deals effectively with complexity of globalization, identity and places of global encounter through a well-structured organization of the text into three spatial levels...The variety of methods and empirical evidence enrich the volume.' - Urban Morphology, April 2003