Where strangers become neighbours : integrating immigrants in Vancouver, Canada / by Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili ; with Val Cavers and Paula Carr
Preface -- Part One: Context -- Inventing the Multicultural Nation: Canada's Evolving Story.-Integrating an Immigrant Metropolis: Vancouver's Diversity Mission -- Changing the Mind of the City: Preparing the Public Sector for a Multicultural Society -- Part Two: The Neighbourhood House: Concept and Reality -- What is a Neighbourhood House -- The Story of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House: A Unique Gathering Place -- CNH: The Ongoing Challenges of Change -- Integrating Immigrants through Community Development -- Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism.-Part Three: Film as an Action Research -- "Where Strangers Become Neighbours": The Story of a Research, the Research of a Story -- Qualitative Inquiries and Film Languages in the Planning Field: a Manifesto
Summary
In the present Age of Migration, the influx of immigrants from distant lands leads inevitably to the spatial and social restructuring of cities and regions, and is often accompanied by fears of and hostility towards the newcomers. Nevertheless, in Europe, North America and Japan this influx of immigrants is essential to economic growth. How can immigrants become accepted members of the society of their adopted country? How can strangers become neighbours? What alchemies of political and social imagination are required to achieve peaceful coexistence in the mongrel cities of the 21st century? W