WHERE STRANGERS BECOME NEIGHBOURS
Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada

by Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili

PART I
INVENTING A MULTICULTURAL NATION

1 Canada’s evolving story
by Leonie Sandercock with Samara Brock

2 Integrating an immigrant metropolis: Vancouver’s diversity mission
by Leonie Sandercock with Samara Brock

3 Changing the Mind of the City: preparing the Public Sector for a Multicultural Society
by Samara Brock

PART II
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE – CONCEPT AND REALITY

4 What is a Neighbourhood House?
by Leonie Sandercock

5 The Story of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House: a unique gathering place
by Leonie Sandercock and Val Cavers

6 CNH: the ongoing challenges of change
by Val Cavers and Paula Carr

7 Integrating immigrants through community development
by Leonie Sandercock

8 Towards a cosmopolitan urbanism: from theory to practice
by Leonie Sandercock

PART III
FILM AS ACTION RESEARCH

9 “Where Strangers become Neighbours”: the story of a research, the research of a story
by Giovanni Attili

10 Qualitative inquiries and film languages in the planning field: a Manifesto
by Giovanni Attili