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Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles


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Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing cities, social cohesiveness becomes more precarious as different beliefs, practices, ambitions, values, and affiliations intersect in close proximity, producing social tensions. Tensions in Diversity presents a multi-method comparative study that draws on the experiences of 140 residents of native and immigrant origin, community organizers, and municipal officers in three culturally diverse neighbourhoods of varying income levels in Los Angeles County. Using cognitive mapping analysis combined with data from interviews, surveys, and participant observation, this book explores how exactly coexistence is socio-spatially experienced and negotiated in daily life. Tensions in Diversity identifies the planning and design considerations that enable intercultural learning in the public places within diverse cities. In doing so, this book foregrounds urban space as an active force in shaping coexistence and convivial public environments.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: The Promise and Peril of Los Angeles "Diversity Explosion": Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Class, and Income Cities of Diversity: Nested Social Complex Studying Diversity as a Socio-Spatial Phenomenon More Quality Contact, Not Less The Trouble with Diversity 2. Comparing Spaces of Globalization and Diversity Neighbourhood and Community in Tension Approaching the Three Locales  Cognitive Mapping of Diversity  Reflections on Fieldwork 3. Scenes of Diversity in Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality Scene One: In San Marino Socio-Spatial Differentiation: Wealth and Ethnicity Divergent Routines Scene Two: In Central Long Beach Ethnicity as an Organizing Principle in Social Space "Canalized" Practices in Shared Space Scene Three: In Mid-Wilshire Contested Space and Cultural Enclaves Relational Web in Density and Diversity Concluding Thoughts: Multivalent Diversities in Los Angeles 4. Tensions in Diversity Competing Values in San Marino Ethnic Turfs in Central Long Beach Profiling in Polarities: Mid-Wilshire Concluding Thoughts about Tensions of Diversity 5. Boundaries and Local Belongings Elective Boundaries Circumscribed Boundaries Polarized Boundaries Fostering Local Belongings (S)elective Belonging Concluding Thoughts: Crossing Boundaries 6. Intercultural Contours of a Diverse Public Realm Configurations of Relational Web Interculturalism in Los Angeles Barriers to Intercultural Learning and Understanding in Los Angeles Lacking Community Space? Intercultural Opportunities in the Public Realm Neighbourhood Parks Public Libraries Public Events and Festivals Concluding Thoughts: Public Realm of Diversity 7. Designing for Collective Intercultural Life Evaluating the Urban Form of Diverse Public Environments Interculturalism in Urban Planning and Design Practice? Co-producing a Convivial Collective Life: Qualities of Intercultural Places Concluding Thoughts: Design for Public Life 8. Conclusions: Conflict and Conviviality in Diversity Diverse Public Realm and Its Promises Implications beyond Los Angeles Appendices Notes References

About the Author :
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan is a fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Review :
"[Chan’s] findings and insights are of use to anyone interested in urbanization, urban planning, community life, race and ethnicity, or Los Angeles specifically." - Ronald J. Angel, University of Texas Austin (Ethnic and Racial Studies)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781487545147
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles
  • ISBN-10: 1487545142
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2022
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 264


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