Catching up with a backlog of emails, projects and readings, and building up the conceptual framework on the pathways between urban diversity, segregation, engagement and co-existence.
“In the face of greater individualisation, privatism, inequality and ethnic and cultural diversity, there has been a tendency towards privacy, withdrawal, segregation and increasing anxiety about the behaviour and values of others. The spatial and social distances between individuals and groups means that, when others who behave differently are encountered, they are perceived as posing a threat, and distaste for the unfamiliar and less legitimate can lead to hostility”
[Watson, 2006 in Bannister and Kearns, 2013: 2713].