Planning for Diversity Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter

by Fincher, Ruth; Iveson, Kurt

• ISBN13: 9781403938091
• ISBN10: 1403938091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Planning theory and practice has engaged increasingly in recognising the diverse needs of social groups. This builds on past and continuing efforts to emphasise redistribution in the provision of better access to services and facilities for all. More recently, planning theory and practice have taken up questions of enhancing interaction and contact between city dwellers. This important new book showcases and compares these three social logics for planning cities - redistribution, recognition and encounter - theoretically and practically in a range of contexts.

Author Biography

RUTH FINCHER is Professor of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia.

KURT IVESON is Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Diversity and the 'communicative turn' in planning	p. 3
Just diversity and the 'right to the city': redistribution, recognition and encounter as three social logics of urban planning	p. 8
Conceptualizing the state	p. 16
The rest of the book	p. 20
Conceptualizing redistribution in planning	p. 23
Redistributive planning	p. 23
Important concepts: locational (dis) advantage and accessibility	p. 30
Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through redistribution	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 46
Planning for redistribution in practice	p. 49
Redistribution: urban renewal	p. 51
Redistribution and recognition: local child care planning for working women	p. 61
Redistribution and encounter: deinstitutionalization of people with a mental illness	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 81
Conceptualizing recognition in planning	p. 84
Planning and the politics of difference	p. 84
Important concepts: affirmative and relational models of recognition	p. 90
Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through recognition	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 103
Planning for recognition in practice	p. 105
Recognition: planning for child friendly cities	p. 106
Recognition and redistribution: planning for immigrants	p. 118
Recognition and encounter: contesting hetero-normativity through planning	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 142
Conceptualizing encounter in planning	p. 145
Planning for disorder?	p. 146
Important concepts: the stranger and conviviality	p. 151
Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through encounter	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 168
Planning for encounter in practice	p. 171
Encounter: street festivals	p. 172
Encounter and redistribution: public libraries	p. 185
Encounter and recognition: drop-in centres and community centres	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 210
Conclusion	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 224
Index	p. 238
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