Utrecht University, Utrecht, 2017
This book is one of the outcomes of the DIVERCITIES project. It focuses on the question
of how to create social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyperdiversified
cities. The project’s central hypothesis is that urban diversity is an asset; it can
inspire creativity, innovation and make cities more liveable and harmonious. To ensure a more
intelligent use of diversity’s potential, a re-thinking of public policies and governance models is
needed.
Headed by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, DIVERCITIES is a collaborative research
project comprising 14 European teams. DIVERCITIES is financed by the European
Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (Project No. 319970).
There are fourteen books in this series, one for each case study city. The cities are Antwerp,
Athens, Budapest, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Milan, Paris, Rotterdam, Tallinn,
Toronto, Warsaw and Zurich.
This book is concerned with Istanbul.