Cosmopolitan promises, multicultural realities

Hall, Stuart (2006). Cosmopolitan promises, multicultural realities. In: Scholar, Richard ed. Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 20–51.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021223-025

Abstract

About the book:
In this book, based on the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures, eight leading urban thinkers argue about why divisions arise in cities and about what could and should be done to bring those divisions to an end. The book features essays by Patrick Declerck, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Richard Rogers, Patricia Williams, and James Wolfensohn, with commentaries from Peter Hall, Michael Likosky, and others. The many contemporary issues that the book addresses include the impact of globalization and migration on the urban environment, the consequences of the 'war on terror' for those living in cities, the new development paradigm being adopted by international institutions in the developing world, the need for a genuine urban renaissance in Britain and elsewhere, and the suffering of the homeless.

These controversial and sometimes conflicting essays, linked by Richard Scholar's incisive introduction, aim to encourage and inform debate about the challenges to human rights in our increasingly urban world.