Social conflicts on the outskirts of cities or in certain inner-city areas, complex multicultural relations, growing isolation, anonymity, and loss of primary and physically close relationships as globalisation progresses, are becoming almost characteristic features of our cities.
These are some of the reasons why the Council of Europe adresses the issue of "Culture and neighbourhoods" within an action-based research project involving twenty-four neighbourhoods from eleven European cities. Link of the server of the Directorate of Education, Culture and Sports of the Council of Europe : http://culture.coe.fr