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 systems 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.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The terrain of race and planning
Chapter 2: Theorising race, ethnicity and culture within contemporary
planning
Chapter 3: Stubborn Continuities: A Critical Race Theory Perspective
Chapter 4: Race, Public Policy and Planning in post-War Britain
Chapter 5: Gypsies and Travellers and the planning system
Chapter 6: Racialized religion and planning: The British Muslim Case
Chapter 7: Conclusions: towards a brighter future?
Richard Gale is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. Richard has researched extensively on the relationship between ethnic and ethno-religious diversity and local authority planning. In particular, he has a longstanding interest in the relationship between planning and the spatial politics of religious minority identity, on which he has published widely over the last two decades. Richard co-led the Faith and Place Network with Dr Andrew Rogers of the University of Roehampton and has participated in several consultancies on the theme of faith and planning, under commission to central, local and devolved governments in the UK.
Huw Thomas is Honorary Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, and Emeritus Reader in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University. He has researched and written about planning in racialised societies for thirty years. His work has been published in many international journals, including Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning C; Area; Cities; European Planning Studies; Planning Theory and Practice; Planning Practice and Research; and Town Planning Review. Other current research interests are aspects of planning theory and planning education, in which he has also published widely.
