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Governing Urban Diversity
In the last decades cities have become more diverse than ever before. Individuals who at first sight appear to belong to a fixed group may show different attitudes and behaviours. They may live in the same neighbourhood, but lead very different lives and have access to different opportunities. A European research team examined how cities can deal with and benefit from this diversity.

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Le Medi
There are projects that you just don’t know what to think of. Projects that are food for discussion.  Or at least raise some questions. Le Medi in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) is such a project. A new complex that I personally find beautiful, it gives me a true feeling of a city in spring, but that’s a matter of taste. There are much more interesting questions, like: is this an interpretation of multicultural building and/or multicultural living? Is there a market for these kind of living …

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Living in a City District
It had been in the bookcase for a while now, so this autumn it was about time to start reading it: ‘Afri’ by journalist Jutta Chorus about the Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). This district is for many the district of the multicultural market and the second generation of Turks and Moroccans that has gone astray. However, the book shows that a lot more, both positive and negative things, is happening in this migrant district.

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