ISBN:
0415280850
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 256 p)
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map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in population and migration 5
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Population and Migration Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Urban Ethnic Encounters : The Spatial Consequences
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Spatial behavior
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Sociology, Urban
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Ethnic relations
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Urban geography
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Ethnic relations
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Sociology, Urban
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Spatial behavior
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Urban geography
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Stadt
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Ethnizität
Abstract:
This book addresses how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. Material is presented from diverse locations such as the cities of Toronto, Vienna, Beirut, Jakarta and Albuquerque
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Urban space and ethnicity; The macro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: Enclaves and the zones of the cities; Residential segregation and neighbourhood socioeconomic inequality: Southeast Asians in Toronto; Places of worship in multicultural settings in Toronto; The impact of local and regional planning on Arab towns in the 'Little Triangle', Israel; Borders and boundaries in post-war Beirut
Description / Table of Contents:
The meso-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: The neighbourhoods of the citiesPerception and use of space by ethnic Chinese in Jakarta; Urban fear in Brazil: From the favelas to The Truman Show; Ethnic consciousness arises on facing spatial threats to Philadelphia Chinatown; Transcultural home identity across the Pacific: A case study of high-tech Taiwanese transnational communities in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Silicon Valley, USA; To cross or not to cross the boundaries in a small multi-ethnic area of the city of Tehran
Description / Table of Contents:
The micro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: The streets and the squares of the citiesRepackaging difference: The Korean 'theming' of a shopping street in Osaka, Japan; The appropriation of public space as a space for living: The Waterworld Festival in Vienna; Contested urban space: Symbolizing power and identity in the city of Albuquerque, USA; Conclusion; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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