madrid & orcasur
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MADRID, Looking for its
identity
MULTICULTURAL URBAN SOLUTIONS TRAINING COURSEKonstancin-Jeziorna, Poland21-26th may 2013
Madrid was founded in the VIIth century by visigotics (although some prehistorics objects were founded). Carpetian, Muslims, Roman Empire, Cristians…every culture has left its
cultural heritage.
MADRID population has grown since 830.000 inhabitants in 1910 to 6.5 million in 2013.
MADRID has been always considered as an open city for foreigners…
Foreigners living in Spain: 5.4 million people (12% of total population).
Foreigners living in Madrid: 1 million people (22% of total population). How can we deal with
this?
Spanish Population Age distribution
Red= womenGrey= man
Foreign Population Age distribution
Red= womenGrey= man
Foreigners living in Usera District: 41.000
(29% of Usera´s population)
There´s not racist behaviours but the integration is far from reality…There´s not big guettos, but much foreigners don´t feel as spanish…
35% of Tomillo´s students are foreigners (in some groups is 60%).
Some videos showing the neighborhood and Tomillo´s activities:TV appearance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accCvKDh0wc Old neighborhood:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i-bftu54tU Old Photos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnxhkfkLSw Young people from Tomillo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La655kDI78c TV documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A14YBtdS5f0 Rapsodas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hKHd33mIb4 Blog: http://plataforma-de-orcasur.blogspot.com.es/