Race, Faith and Planning in Britain (Routledge Research in Planning)

by HuwThomas (Author), RichardGale (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2019

  $145.84

  Race, Diversity and Planning: the British experience in context considers the relationship between a realist account of racism and theories of multi-culturalism in contemporary Britain. Exploring how planning is affected by and affects the racialization of social relations, Race, Diversity and Planning charts the history of the UK planning system's approach, in terms of the spatial consequences of immigration, discourses of diversity and cohesion, citizenship and belonging, and post-secularism.

  Unique to this second edition, Huw Thomas and Richard Gale pay special attention to the experiences of minority groups in the UK with unique planning needs, including Gypsies and Travellers, and British Muslims. By setting the UK experience alongside European countries like Sweden and the Netherlands, this volume underlines that the struggle over planning in racialized societies must be construed as part of a wider political struggle over equality. This book is an essential read for students and practitioners of planning in multicultural Britain.