Table Topics: DiverCities. Gentrification, Social Mobility and Public Spaces (Anouk Tersteeg)

Anouk Tersteeg (photo: private) Although cities have always attracted diverse groups of people, recently scholars including Vertovec (2007; 2010) have argued that cities are becoming even more diverse. The EU-funded research project DIVERCITIES in which I work uses the concept of hyper-diversity to indicate that cities are not only increasingly diverse in ethnic, demographic and socioeconomic terms, but also with respect to attitudes, lifestyles and activities of people (see: Tasan-Kok et al...