Overview
- The first book to provide a detailed case study of the successful integration of immigrants at the neighbourhood and city level
- Investigates issues raised by the documentary story and integrates film as an action research tool
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 4)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
The Neighbourhood House: Concept and Reality
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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 for the best Urban Planning PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. He is co-editor of the book, Storie di Città (Edizioni Interculturali, 2007) and author of the book, Rappresentare la città dei migranti (Jaca Book, 2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Where Strangers Become Neighbours
Book Subtitle: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
Authors: Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili
Series Title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9035-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9034-9Published: 19 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7689-9Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9035-6Published: 10 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1877-7139
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1200
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 303
Topics: Human Geography, Cities, Countries, Regions, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Regional and Cultural Studies