Table of Contents

Context.- Inventing a Multicultural Nation: Canada’s Evolving Story.- Integrating an Immigrant Metropolis: Vancouver’s Diversity Mission.- Changing the Mind of the City: Preparing the Public Sector for a Multicultural Society.- The Neighbourhood House: Concept and Reality.- What Is a Neighbourhood House?.- The Story of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House: A Unique Gathering Place.- CNH: The Ongoing Challenges of Change.- Integrating Immigrants Through Community Development.- Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism: From Theory to Practice.- Film as Action Research.- “Where Strangers Become Neighbours”: The Story of a Research, the Research of a Story.- Qualitative Inquiries and Film Languages in the Planning Field: A Manifesto.

About the Author

Leonie Sandercock is the author of ten books, the most recent include; Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century (2003). The latter book won the Paul Davidoff Award for best book awarded by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She also received the Dale Prize for Community Planning (2005), and the BMW Award for Intercultural Learning (2007), for her paper on 'Cosmopolitan Urbanism'. Giovanni Attili is an Urban Planning Research Fellow at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver). He is recipient of the G. Ferraro Award for the best Urban Planning PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. He is co-editor of the book, Storie di Citta (Edizioni Interculturali, 2007) and author of the book, Rappresentare la citta dei migranti (Jaca Book, 2008).