Building Differences in the City

Abstract

In the industrial city, social conflict was more visible than in the present urban model. In the latter, there are somne obstacles in order for the self-representations of the individuals to be articulated in a collective and solidary way. Dissolution of the belongings related to the industrial city, makes possible that other till recently not quite important belongings, become significant in the new context. The so-called «immigrant» reveals the nature of the emergent belongings and challenges their integrating capacity.