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Divercities wrote a new post, Budapest Poster
Conference poster with images from Budapest’s case study area.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Athens Poster
Conference poster with images from Athens’s case study area.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Antwerp Posters
Conference poster with images from Antwerp’s case study area.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Conference Posters
Over the coming weeks we’ll be providing reports, images, news and more from the recent DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference that was held in Rotterdam recently. The post is visual and...
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Divercities wrote a new post, New Policy Brief
Governing Urban Diversity: What can policymakers and civil society learn from DIVERCITIES? is the the title of our latest Policy Brief. It is available to download now. This policy brief […]
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Divercities wrote a new post, Diverse Cities in Milan
Over a three month period, the Milan team worked with teachers on the Diverse Cities Education Programme in a school in the north eastern area of Zona di Decentramento 2 in Via Padova. The area was the...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Diversity and Deprivation
‘Diversity and Deprivation’ was the theme at this year’s edition of the annual ‘Housing Day’ organised by the Danish Building Research Institute in Copenhagen. More than 100 practitioners and...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Zurich
Zurich, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of over 400,000 inhabitants. Of the city’s population, 32% are foreign nationals coming from 169 nations, and 61% of r...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Warsaw
Thee area under investigation – Praga Północ is one of eighteen administrative districts in Warsaw. It is characterized by large variations in social and economic status of its inhabitants. It also...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Toronto
Unlike many European cities, Toronto takes a positive approach to diversity, as re ected in its o cial slogan: Diversity our Strength. Nonetheless, Toronto’s approach has also been criticized for u […]
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Divercities wrote a new post, Tallinn
Tallinn, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of about 430,000 inhabitants. The main dimension of diversity in Tallinn pertains to ethnic diversity, but we also […]
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Divercities wrote a new post, Rotterdam
Rotterdam, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of about 620,000 inhabitants. The former industrial city is one of Europe’s most important ports (the largest cargo...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Paris
Paris, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of about 2.24 million inhabitants, making it the largest municipality in France. It is located on the river Seine, in...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Milan
Milan, the focus of this book, currently has 3.2 million inhabitants in the metropolitan administrative area, and 1.3 million in the municipality. It is a highly diverse city in terms of population:...
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Divercities wrote a new post, London
This book examines the relationships between growing economic, social, and cultural diversity in London and the city’s planning, governance, and development. It explores the ways in which debates over...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Leipzig
Among DIVERCITIES’ case studies, Leipzig represents a special case, because it has undergone radical changes after 1990, like other post-socialist cities (Budapest, Warsaw, Tallinn), but these are not...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Istanbul
In this book, we introduce findings from the case study area, Beyoglu, which is one of the districts with a diversified population in Istanbul. It has a long diversity legacy since it has hosted...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Copenhagen
This book is focused on Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Copenhagen is by far the largest city in Denmark; it is also the most diverse city. The city was historically the centre of the army, the...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Budapest
Budapest, the focus of this book, is a diverse city with a population of about 1.7 million inhabitants. It is the largest city in Hungary and also one of the most important economic, political and...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Athens
The City of Athens, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of approximately 664,000 inhabitants (the metropolitan area of Athens, however, is home to 3.8 million […]
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Divercities wrote a new post, Antwerp
Antwerp, the focus of this book, is a highly diverse city with a current population of more than half a million inhabitants. As the largest city of the Flemish region in the north of Belgium, and the […]
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Korrie Louwes Opening Address
Watch the opening address by Korrie Louwes, the former Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam for Labour Market, Higher Education, Innovation and Participation.
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Divercities wrote a new post, A report from the Architecture Excursion
The Rotterdam Architecture City tour, as part of activities during the DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference, took place on a grey and wet Wednesday afternoon 8 February 2017 running for...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Lead Researchers on DIVERCITIES
As the DIVERCITIES Research project draws to a conclusion this week, three lead researchers give their perspective on the experience and what the future holds: Gideon Bolt, Utrecht University It has...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Workshop Images
The DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference featured eighteen workshops led by our researchers and other professional. We’ve put together some images from the workshops here.
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Divercities wrote a new post, DIVERCITIES in Summary
The primary mission of our project, in a nutshell, was to provide evidence of the positive outcomes on social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance that may emerge from greater urban...
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Divercities wrote a new post, In Fashion
One of our favourite outfits as part of the fashion show put on by Wijkatelier op Zuid. Bravo!
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Paul Scheffer's Keynote
Watch Paul Scheffer’s Keynote Address: Challenges of integration and diversity. Paul Scheffer is Professor at the School of Humanities at Tilburg University.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Newsletter 12
Our final newsletter is out now. In it our Scientific Steering Committee talks DIVERCITIES, Gideon Bolt provides a summary of the project, we round up both the recent Governing Urban Diversity...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Ozge's Portrait
Gustave Nouel was on hand to draw anyone who wanted their portrait done. Here is Özge from the Middle East Technical University in Istanbul with hers.
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Divercities wrote a new post, NIFFO's Exhibition
NIFFO is a gallery space in Rotterdam South. They presented a vibrant exhibition of about twenty paintings on the theme of diversity with all work by local artists. They were: Mosab Anzo (Syria) Carla...
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Divercities wrote a new post, H.E.L.D.E.R.H.E.I.D.
H.E.L.D.E.R.H.E.I.D. / B.R.I.G.H.T.N.E.S.S. are in the house. They were charged with kicking off precedings for the Diversity Mini-Festival, which they did with energy and zip using music. Those taking...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Wijkatelier op Zuid
Translating as Neighbourhood Workshop, Wijkatelier op Zuid is a place for residents and designers from Afrikaanderwijk to come together to share their knowledge of various textiles skills. The...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Down to business
Conference visitors engaging with The Seed via paint.
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Ümit Kiziltan's Keynote
Ümit Kiziltan’s Keynote address: Diversity and Immigration: Projections, public anxiety, and choosing inclusion and hope over fear. Ümit Kiziltan is Director General, Research and Head of Evaluation, I...
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Ruth Fincher's Keynote
Watch Ruth Fincher Keynote address: “Planning, diversity and equality”. Ruth Fincher is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Talking to NIFFO
One of our ideas for the Diversity Mini-Festival was to have booths for each initiatve so that conference visitors could drop by and get to know the work of each initiative informally. The image above...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Museum of Praga Talk
The Warsaw team will speak next week at the Museum of Praga (in Polish) about the results of their research in the district of Praga. Ewa Olejniczak Korcelli and Filip Piotrowski, both from the...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Rikke with the Local Council of Bispebjerg
Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen continues the dissemination process, this time presenting knowledge from Copenhagen’s DIVERCITIES research to the Local Council of Bispebjerg and other interested actors. It was...
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Irena Guidikova's Closing Address
Watch Irena Guidikova’s closing address: Urban policies for diversity advantage – the Intercultural City paradigm. Irena Guidikova is Head of Division, World Forum for Democracy, Intercultural Cities...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Conference Clips
We’re pleased to announce that we have a selection of video clips from the DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference available to view on our website. The clips include the opening address from...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Spoken World
Edmund of The Seed at the Diversity Mini-Festival.
View ArticleDivercities wrote a new post, Highlights Video
Our highlights video from the recent DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference in Rotterdam is available to watch on our website and on our YouTube Channel. Produced by Hoyinck Photography, the...
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Divercities wrote a new post, City Sleeps: Gentrification
Gideon Bolt had an early start as a guest on De Dagwacht (The Morning Watch) program on NPO Radio 1. Speaking on the topic of gentrification, Gideon spoke on the subject backgrounded by DIVERCITIES...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Improving Europe's Social Cohesion
Impact magazine aims to communicate research across a range of topics. Pathways to Innovations is the focus of the current issue and features an interview with Gideon Bolt titled A pathway to improving...
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Divercities wrote a new post, Diversity and social cohesion
Diversity and social cohesion: the case of Jane-Finch, a highly diverse lower-income Toronto neighbourhood is the title of Donya Ahmadi’s article published in the Urban Research & Practice journal....
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Divercities wrote a new post, The Assets of Urban Diversity
Our latest and final Policy Brief titled The Assets of Urban Diversity is now available. You can read the abstract and download the full document below or view all of our Policy Briefs on our […]
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Divercities wrote a new post, A Handbook for Governing Hyper-diverse Cities
Our Handbook for Governing Hyper-diverse Cities is now available to download. Based on DIVERCITIES research in 14 countries, our team of 60+ international researchers interviewed over 140 interesting...
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Divercities wrote a new post, End Conference Report
Read the full report from the DIVERCITIES: Governing Urban Diversity Conference held in Rotterdam from 8-10 February 2017 here.
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Divercities wrote a new post, Divercities Understanding super diversity in...
How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit...
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