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Debatt: Multicultural Urban Form

Debatt: Multicultural Urban Form

Following the recent increase in the number of arrivals to Europe, there have been growing concerns over the question of living together in multicultural cities despite all our cultural differences. In this respect, there has been a tendency both in academia and practice to identify the so-called ‘segregated’ ethnic neighbourhoods as the ‘problematic’ urban areas, and implicitly or explicitly associate them with a variety of urban challenges and risks such as segregation, ethnic unrest, racially motivated hate crimes, fundamentalism, etc.