Locally and responsibly. Place in metropolises - Barcelona and Paris

A paper undertakes a concept of metropolitan locality. The metropolitan locality is defined by specific thinking, characteristic celebration of life, local pride, roots and at the same time by tolerance, openness and hospitality. The author presents Barcelona and Paris as those metropolises where ethnicalisation of urban space can be observed. The locality of metropolis keeps a relation between intimate and public areas, celebrates separate "being" in a city. The metropolitan locality is a social and cultural project. It is the starting point to define the difference. The opening to otherness is only possible from the place one is deeply-rooted.