The article analyses the discourses, strategies and daily practices about diversity in Milan, Italy, framing them at different scales: (a) the national model of integration; (b) the city-level debate and policy framework about diversity; (c) the neighbourhood-level initiatives addressing (directly or indirectly) diversity; (d) representations and narratives about diversity among the residents of two neighbourhoods in the city. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2013 and 2015 with 33 interviews with key officials and policymakers and 52 interviews with inhabitants of two neighbourhoods in Milan, this work aims at disentangling how multi-scalar representations intertwine and intersect, to what extent the different scales influence each other and with what consequences on the multi-level governance of urban diversity. Considering both the bottom-up and the top-down perspectives, the results will highlight the detachment between people’s narratives and representations and the local and national frameworks of discourses and policy practice, especially focusing on the reasons for and consequences of this detachment, and on the role that the meso level of local initiatives has in connecting the macro and the micro levels. The focus on the meso level allows one to underline the weaknesses and potentialities of the urban policy level in fostering the production of an institutional environment that is able to acknowledge and promote diversity.

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意大利对政策和实践多样性的（错误）认识：米兰案例

本文分析了意大利米兰关于多样性的话语、策略和日常实践，在不同的尺度上构建它们：(a) 国家一体化模式；(b) 关于多样性的城市级辩论和政策框架；(c) 解决（直接或间接）多样性的社区级举措；(d) 关于城市两个街区居民多样性的陈述和叙述。利用 2013 年至 2015 年间对主要官员和政策制定者进行的 33 次采访以及对米兰两个街区居民的 52 次采访进行的定性研究，这项工作旨在解开多标量表示如何相互交织和交叉，以及不同尺度对每个区域的影响程度其他以及对城市多样性的多层次治理有何影响。从自下而上和自上而下的角度来看，结果将突出人们的叙述和表征与地方和国家话语和政策实践框架之间的脱节，特别关注这种脱节的原因和后果，以及地方举措的中观层面在连接宏观和微观层面的作用。对中观层面的关注使人们能够强调城市政策层面在促进能够承认和促进多样性的制度环境的产生方面的弱点和潜力。特别关注这种脱离的原因和后果，以及地方举措的中观层面在连接宏观和微观层面的作用。对中观层面的关注使人们能够强调城市政策层面在促进能够承认和促进多样性的制度环境的产生方面的弱点和潜力。特别关注这种脱离的原因和后果，以及地方举措的中观层面在连接宏观和微观层面的作用。对中观层面的关注使人们能够强调城市政策层面在促进能够承认和促进多样性的制度环境的产生方面的弱点和潜力。