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Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Spatialising multiculture: changing formations of urban diversity and the difference a place makes -- Introduction -- Urban diversity and cultural difference: between crisis and the ordinary -- Situated multiculture: the return of place in debates about migrant settlement and cultural difference -- Multicultural drift and super-diversity:evolving urban multiculture -- Putting multiculture in its place -- The value of the comparative gesture -- Making the argument: introducing the chapters of the book -- 2 The increasingly ordinary and increasingly complex nature of ethnic diversity: Conviviality, community and why the micro matters -- Introduction -- Explaining the ascendency of conviviality - emphasising the everyday -- Situating multiculture and the importance of place -- Repositioning conviviality -- From community to conviviality - and back again? -- Conclusions -- 3 Researching difference: differentiated populations, lives and places -- Introduction -- Research practice for complex multiculture: settings, observation, participation, research populations and interviewing -- Researching difference: fixing or connecting difference? -- Researching place in places -- Using research data - processes of listening -- Conclusions -- Note -- 4 Multiculture and public parks: social practice and attachment in urban green space -- Introduction -- Multiculture, public space and urban green spaces -- Researching urban parks and affective urban green space -- Park practices - everyday activities and diverse populations -- Park affections: materialities, memories and mixings -- Conclusions -- Note -- 5 Semi-publicspace: corporate cafés, multiculture and everyday social life -- Introduction -- Rethinking corporate café spaces