Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences

by Colombijn,Freek

• ISBN13: 9780415280853
• ISBN10: 0415280850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection 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 multi-disciplinary team of authors search the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations in cities around the globe. The presentation of material from diverse locations such as Toronto, Philadelphia, Beirut, Jakarta, Tehran, Osaka and Albuquerque presents a unique opportunity for comparative analysis of ethnicity and spatial patterns.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Notes on contributors	x
Preface	xiv
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: Urban space and ethnicity	1	(24)
Freek Colombijn
Aygen Erdentug
PART I The macro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: Enclaves and the zones of the cities	25	(72)
Residential segregation and neighbourhood socioeconomic inequality: Southeast Asians in Toronto	27	(19)
Joe T. Darden
Places of worship in multicultural settings in Toronto	46	(15)
Chandrakant P. Shah
The Impact of Local and regional planning on Arab towns in the `Little Triangle', Israel	61	(20)
Tharbet Abu Rass
Borders and Boundaries in post-war Beirut	81	(16)
Daniel Genberg
PART II The meso-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: The neighbourhoods of the cities	97	(78)
Perception and use of space by ethnic Chinese in Jakarta	99	(10)
Harald Leisch
Urban fear in Brazil: From the favelas to The Truman Show	109	(17)
Carmen Silva De Moraes Rial
Mriam Pillar Grossi
Ethnic consciousness arises on facing spatial threats to Philadelphia Chinatown	126	(16)
Jian Guan
Transcultural home identity across the Pacific: A case study of high-tech Taiwanese transnational communities in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Silicon Valley, USA	142	(18)
Shengiln Chang
To cross or not to cross the boundaries in a small multi-ethnic area of the city of Tehran	160	(15)
Soheila Shahshahani
PART III The micro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: The streets and the squares of the cities	175	(71)
Repackaging difference: The Korean `theming' of a shopping street in Osaka, Japan	177	(15)
Jeffry T. Hester
The appropriation of public space as a space for living: The Waterworld Festival in Vienna	192	(17)
Heidi Dumreicher
Contested urban space: Symbolizing power and identity in the city of Albuquerque, USA	209	(17)
Eveline Durr
Conclusion	226	(20)
Freek Colombijn
Aygen Erdentug
Index	246