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Urban Segregation and the Welfare State examines ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarisation, and social exclusion in major cities in the Western world. Contributors from across North America and Europe provide in-depth analysis of particular cities, ranging from Johannesburg, Chicago and Toronto to Amsterdam, Stockholm and Belfast. The authors highlight the social problems in and of cities, indicating differences between nation-states in terms of economic restructuring, migration, welfare state regimes and ""ethnic history

Machine generated contents note: PART 1: AGENCY AND SEGREGATION -- 2. Itzhak Benenson and Itzhak Omer, Measuring Individual -- Segregation in Space - A Formal Approach and Case Study 11 -- 3. Izhak Schnell, Segregation in Everyday Life Spaces: -- A Conceptual Model 39 -- 4. Jean-Bernard Racine, Migration, Places and Intercultural -- Relations in Cities 67 -- 5. Marina Marengo, Interculturality: A Preferential Path in the -- Search for a New Urban Social Equilibrium? 87 -- PART 2: SEGREGATION AND STATE POLICIES -- 6. Tineke Domburg-De Rooij and Sako Musterd, Ethnic -- Segregation and the Welfare State 107 -- 7. Andreas Farwick, Britta Klagge and Wolfgang Taubmann, -- Urban Poverty in Germany 133 -- 8. Wim Ostendorf, Segregation and Urban Policies in the -- Netherlands 159 -- PART 3: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 9. Charles Small, National Identity in a Transforming Quebec -- Society: Socio-Economic and Spatial Segregation in Montreal 181 -- 10. Ludger Basten and Lienhard Lotscher, Segregation in the -- Ruhr 221 -- 11. Andre Horn, New Perspectives on Urban Segregation and -- Desegregation in Post-Resolution South Africa 247 -- 12. Gu Chaolin and Christian Kesteloot, Beijing's Socio-Spatial -- Structure in Transition 285

This volume presents an international comparison of segregation patterns of immigrants and policy reactions at local and state level. The objective is to give an insight into the European experience with ethnic segregation in metropolitan areas. European cities have generally become multi-ethnic metropolises, consisting of a mix of ethnic categories. However, a homogeneous European picture does not exist. Patterns of ethnic segregation and policy reactions differ from city to city. The following metropolises are compared: Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm and Toronto (Canada). Audience: This invaluable book will be of interest to researchers and students in geographical, ethnic and policy studies as well as to civil servants and policy makers working in large metropolises and national governments

All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key findings of a major EU-funded research programme into the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. Policy and practice between and within the ten countries studied - UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, and France - is compared. While existing literature focuses on the negative aspects of large-scale housing estates, this book starts from the premise that the estates can be transformed into attractive places to live and focuses on the possibilities of sustainability and renewal through social, physical and policy actions. Specifically, the book explains the origins and nature of contemporary problems on the estates; examines which policy objectives, measures and processes have had the greatest impact; assesses and compares a wide range of local, regional and national initiatives; discusses current ideas and philosophies, such as 'place making' and 'collaborative planning' that are likely to influence future policy and practice and provides good practice guidance for neighbourhood sustainability and renewal. Written by a multi-national team of experts and drawing on original fieldwork, the book provides unique comparative insights into the present and future position of large-scale housing estates in Europe. Restructuring large-scale housing estates in Europe is an invaluable resource for a wide audience of academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of housing, urban studies, community studies, regeneration, planning and social policy