Urban Diversity

by Kihato, Caroline; Massoumi, Mejgan; Ruble, Blair A.; Subiros, Pep; Garland, Allison M.

• ISBN13: 9780801898013
• ISBN10: 0801898013
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-07
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast-changing urban contexts. The contributors identify specific areas of contestation, including public spaces and facilities, governmental structures, civil society institutions, cultural organizations, and cyberspace.The contributors also explore the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms that can encourage inclusive pluralism in the world's cities, seeking approaches that view diversity as an asset rather than a threat. Exploring old and new public spaces, practices of marginalized urban dwellers, and actions of the state, the contributors to Urban Diversity assess the formation and reformation of processes of inclusion, whether through deliberate actions intended to rejuvenate democratic political institutions or the spontaneous reactions of city residents.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Exploring the Contours of Inclusion and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Cities	p. 1
Mutations of Public Space and the Public Domain
Collective Culture and Urban Public Space	p. 21
Kyiv: Reinventing the Agora? Public Space as Political Arena	p. 51
Ethnic Precincts and Neo-Bohemias: The Future of Retail and Leisure "Contact Zones" in the Inclusive City	p. 77
Cyberspace as the New Public Domain	p. 99
Negotiating Gender and Access to Knowledge Technology in the Urban Context	p. 123
Claiming Urban Space: New Modes of Inclusion and Belonging in Cities
Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and Mumbai	p. 145
Inclusion in Shifting Sands: Rethinking Mobility and Belonging in African Cities	p. 169
Youth Cultures and the Mediation of Racial Exclusion or Inclusion in Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town	p. 187
Reconfiguring Citizenship in African Cities: Inclusion and Exclusion in Inner-City Johannesburg	p. 213
Multilingual Cities: Communities of Knowledge	p. 225
Toward Inclusive Urban Governance?
Diversity and Urban Governance	p. 257
Participatory Budgeting Processes in Brazil-Fifteen Years Later	p. 283
Crime and Violence: The Threat of Division and Exclusion in Latin American Cities	p. 301
Urban Inclusion and Public Space: Challenges in Transforming Barcelona	p. 323
A Voice Is Heard in the City: Inclusive Cities and Citizen Voice	p. 341
Contributors	p. 361
Index	p. 367
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