But on the outskirts of town are cinderblock apartments filled with largely North African immigrants, areas where gangs thrive and alienation can be measured in the number of cars set on fire in the night.
This was part of a cultural center that flourished in the immigrant area.
Ben Ahmed lives northeast of Paris, in a largely immigrant area known as Department 93.
The most notorious immigrant area in central Brussels is called Cureghem, known for its high rates of crime and unemployment.
You have lived in Spitalfields, the Bangladeshi immigrant area of London's East End, since the 1960s.
Growing up in an immigrant area in the 1960s and 1970s, Campbell couldn't fail to be influenced by his peers.
With a school friend he would skip lessons and go off to play pool for bets in the Mexican immigrant area of Amarillo.
In Gamlegården, an overwhelmingly immigrant area in northern Kristianstad, there are few white faces among the Iraqis, Syrians and Somalis who have made it their home.
In the past year, a torrent of galleries has landed in this historically immigrant area, carving out a pioneering district for emerging artists.
