Enhancing urban encounters: the transformative powers of creative integration initiatives

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Sustainable cites require the capacity to live with difference. In a world of increased mobility and migration, our cities become more and more diversified. While national discourses on diversity are often problem-focused, social initiatives are emerging in diverse cities addressing the positive potential of the city as a cross-cultural meeting place. In Norway, such initiatives have increased in number since “the refugee crisis” in 2015, and we see creative approaches arising from civil society, the voluntary sector, private companies, and local governments aiming to facilitate encounters with difference. This article explores innovative integration initiatives in cities in the north, emphasizing how difference might be negotiated, engendering new forms of engagement and responsibility. Cities are seen as sites of experiments, where new relations across difference are developed. Framing encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, yet hopeful, we discuss the transformative powers of such initiatives for planning in diverse cities.

Object Details

• ISSN: 2183-7635
• Extent: Seite(n): 44-52
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Urban Planning, 4(1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Raumplanung und Regionalforschung ; Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie ; Stadt ; Stadtentwicklung ; kulturelle Vielfalt ; Norwegen ; Transformation ; Planung ; Integration ; soziale Beziehungen ; Innovation ; interkulturelle Kommunikation ; kooperatives Lernen ; Verständnis ; Theater ; regionale Entwicklung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Førde, Anniken
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Portugal
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v4i1.1713
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST