TY  - CHAP
AB  - The contemporary city is a field with a myriad of problems that require deep reflection and the questioning of habitual ways of thinking and acting. This chapter examines some of these, while seeking a path – or perhaps a way out – in order to deal with the difficulties linked to the most pressing emergent phenomena: the multiplication of new citizens, the complicated mosaic of differences, the spread of voluntary communities and the requests for recognition in a socially diverse and multiple society.The reflections brought together in this chapter leave behind mundane literary routines, imprisoned in the clichés of the discourse on post-modernity, to single out a ‘field of practices’ that is enigmatic but at the same time constitutes and generates a new idea of urbanity. DiverCity (Perrone, 2010) is the literary and evocative figuration that recounts this set of practices. The figuration uses a ‘play on words’ between diversity and city, in which the two concepts are understood as entities with a one-to-one correspondence, an ontological interconnection. DiverCity is the outcome of a process to produce and exchange multiple, plural, interactive (built up during the action), expert and experiential knowledge.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-1-78052-259-3, 978-1-78052-258-6/1047-0042
DO  - 10.1108/S1047-0042(2011)0000011004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-0042(2011)0000011004
AU  - Perrone Camilla
ED  - Camilla Perrone
ED  - Gabriele Manella
ED  - Lorenzo Tripodi
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Chapter 1 What would a 'DiverCity' be like? Speculation on Difference-sensitive Planning and Living Practices
T2  - Everyday Life in the Segmented City
T3  - Research in Urban Sociology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 25
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -