A characteristic feature of cities had been their ethnic heterogeneity, caused by the arrival of job seeking immigrants, refugees, temporary guest workers and tourists. Urbanization and ethnic differentiation, with all their concomitant conflicts, have been two of the most persistent social changes of the last century and continue to be to the present day. Urban Ethnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various...