The Politics of Territory Policy and Segregation in Northern Ireland

by Murtagh, Brendan

• ISBN13: 9780333739945
• ISBN10: 0333739949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the relationship between land use planning and ethno-religious segregation. It draws on a range of empirical research and case studies to explore the meaning attached to land in contested places, the challenges these present to planners and the possibilities for accommodating differences over the use and development of territory. The author argues that planners have a significant role in the management of these processes and sets out some ideas about how this might be addressed in local and global settings, including the Balkans and Palestine.

Author Biography

Brendan Murtagh is a Reader in the School of Environmental Planning at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	xi
List of Figures	xii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
Discourses of integration	2	(2)
The aims of the book	4	(1)
The research settings	5	(1)
Structure of the book	6	(3)
Planning and the State	9	(22)
Introduction	9	(1)
Urban theory and the state	10	(1)
Planning and planners	11	(6)
Decision rules and policy discourses	17	(2)
Planning and the `turn to community'	19	(1)
Crises, planning and housing in Northern Ireland	20	(2)
Crises, planning and regeneration	22	(2)
Centralisation and policy processes	24	(3)
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive	27	(1)
Conclusions	28	(3)
Segregation, Territory and Policy	31	(14)
Introduction	31	(1)
Identity and segregation	31	(3)
Dimensions to segregation	34	(2)
Urban segregation	36	(1)
Policy concerns	36	(2)
Segregation and rural communities	38	(2)
Demography and territory	40	(2)
Conclusions	42	(3)
Life on the Interface	45	(20)
Introduction	45	(1)
Belfast's peacelines	46	(3)
Life on the interface: research findings	49	(3)
Policy responses	52	(11)
Conclusions	63	(2)
Life in the Enclave	65	(24)
Introduction	65	(1)
Suffolk estate: West Belfast	66	(9)
The demolition of Unity Flats	75	(11)
Conclusions	86	(3)
Life in a Northern Town	89	(16)
Introduction	89	(1)
City Vision processes	90	(2)
City Vision in Derry/Londonderry	92	(12)
Conclusions	104	(1)
Life and the Land	105	(22)
Introduction	105	(1)
Life in small-town Ulster	106	(6)
Life on the rural interface	112	(7)
Life and the land	119	(4)
Possibilities for policy	123	(3)
Conclusions	126	(1)
European Policy and Local Initiatives	127	(24)
Introduction	127	(1)
The URBAN Initiative	128	(12)
Peace, reconciliation and partnership	140	(8)
Conclusions	148	(3)
Planning and Ethnic Division	151	(20)
Introduction	151	(1)
Demographic management and the limits to integration	151	(12)
Security forces and planning in Northern Ireland	163	(4)
`Greyness where colour matters'	167	(1)
Conclusions	168	(3)
Conclusions	171	(14)
Introduction	171	(1)
Two narratives on the role of planning	172	(5)
The role of the planner	177	(2)
Resolving, discourse and argument	179	(3)
Conclusion	182	(3)
Bibliography	185	(12)
Index	197