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  title info:
    title: Where Strangers Become Neighbours
    sub title: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
  name:
    name part: Sandercock, Leonie.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Attili, Giovanni.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 303 p. online resource.
  abstract: In the present age of migration, the influx of immigrants from distant lands leads inevitably to the spatial and social restructuring of cities and regions. It is often accompanied by fears of and hostility towards the newcomers. Nevertheless, in Europe, North America and Japan this influx of immigrants is essential to economic growth. How can immigrants become accepted members of the society of their adopted country? How can strangers become neighbours? What alchemies of political and social imagination are required to achieve peaceful coexistence in the mongrel cities of the 21st century? What philosophies and policies have made integration successful in Canada and how can it be translated into European context? The book tackles an important contemporary issue – the social integration of immigrants in a large metropolis – by way of the detailed case study of one Canadian city. The book provides a large political and legal context which makes this case study comprehensible and inspiring to readers outside Canada. The accompanying award-winning film illustrates how one neighbourhood has been engaged in creating a welcoming place for everyone. The use of film-making as an action research tool and the digital ethnographic methodology provide alternative ways of understanding a complex social process. Leonie Sandercock is the author of ten books, the most recent include; Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century (2003). The latter book won the Paul Davidoff Award for best book awarded by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She also received the Dale Prize for Community Planning (2005), and the BMW Award for Intercultural Learning (2007), for her paper on ‘Cosmopolitan Urbanism’. Giovanni Attili is an Urban Planning Research Fellow at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver). He is recipient of the G. Ferraro Award f…
  table of contents: Context -- Inventing a Multicultural Nation: Canada’s Evolving Story -- Integrating an Immigrant Metropolis: Vancouver’s Diversity Mission -- Changing the Mind of the City: Preparing the Public Sector for a Multicultural Society -- The Neighbourhood House: Concept and Reality -- What Is a Neighbourhood House? -- The Story of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House: A Unique Gathering Place -- CNH: The Ongoing Challenges of Change -- Integrating Immigrants Through Community Development -- Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism: From Theory to Practice -- Film as Action Research -- “Where Strangers Become Neighbours”: The Story of a Research, the Research of a Story -- Qualitative Inquiries and Film Languages in the Planning Field: A Manifesto.
  note: by Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: GF1-900
  classification: 304.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 4
  identifier: 9781402090356
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9035-6
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204184242.0
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