The book entitled Metropolises of Europe – Diversity in Urban Cultural Life published by Pro Cultura Publishing, Warsaw is the outcome of  CIRCLE’s most recent endeavour, and emerged from the need to map the rapidly changing landscape of cultural diversity in Europe’s cities.  Contemporary migratory flows and diasporas are generating challenging new variants and mixes of cultural difference.  Europe has a long tradition of cultural plurality, to be sure, but today’s developments are novel, and our societies have no alternative but to address unprecedented patterns of interaction with newcomers and their offspring that did not have to be faced by any earlier society.   Cultural diversity, whether it is new or of the traditional variety, is now lived in contexts and situations that call for new concepts or radical redefinitions of old ones – not least of which is the place of cultural belonging and cultural difference in human, social and political life in general.   While many of the issues can be posed at nation-state level, they are lived out most acutely in our metropolitan cities, which have become veritable ‘laboratories’ for new multi- and inter-cultural processes; it is here that the challenges are the greatest to policy-makers, individuals and communities alike. 

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
by Dorota Ilczuk and Yudhishtir Raj Isar

Diversity in urban cultural life: some general observations and particular trends exemplified in the city studies
by Christopher Gordon

CITY REPORTS

Cultural diversity and intercultural policies in Barcelona
by Lluís Bonet

Budapest: regaining multiculturalism?
by Krisztina Keresztély and János Zoltán Szabó

Cultural diversity and cultural policies in the metropolitan area of Rome
by Carla Bodo and Simona Bodo

Tallinn as a multicultural city: structures, initiatives, debate
by Mikko Lagerspetz and Sofia Joons

Warsaw: a city of riviving multiculturalism
by Dorota Ilczuk (in co-operation with Kazimierz Krzysztofek, Rafal Pankowski and Jan Stanislaw Wojciechowski)

ADDITIONAL PAPERS

Cultural policy discourse and diversity management in Berlin
by Kira Kosnick

The promotion of cultural diversity through integration policies in Helsinki
by Ritva Mitchell

Moscow: the melting pot under pressure
by Kirill Razlogov

Expressions of cultural diversity in Zagreb
by Nada Švob- Dokić

INFORMATION ABOUT CIRCLE

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.