Urban Collective Spaces for Super-Diversity Antagonism of Affinity

Urban Collectiveness and Super-Diversity are both of great importance in today's’ city. This fact alone would be a sufficient reason for this thesis, but the additional fact that these are often part of a global movement called internationalization confirms its representativeness. Within this context the term and concept ‘super-diversity’, often said to have been coined by sociologist Steven Vertovec, was introduced into society. In contrast to Vertovec, I hereby argue that everyone is different, and in that way, everyone is the same. Collectiveness, as an at long last counter movement towards Brussels fragmented and raptured cityscape which was mainly created by the illusion of control over the evolution of the city through top-down planning. Hence the cruciality of bottom-up initiatives and developments and the recognition of differences in perspective and scale.status: publishe