Few contemporary European cities can avoid facing the socio-economic inequalities that are often reflected in the urban landscape. 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 in the cities. Within an action-based research project involving twenty-four neghbourhoods from eleven European cities, this publication presents some of the finest contemporary thinking on the issue of urban development and culture. G. Amendola has interviewed a highly-regarded city planner, a sociologist, a city historian and a philosopher, and has added an introduction and a personal lexicon of urban neighbourhood cultural life.
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