1st Edition

Race and Planning The UK Experience

By Huw Thomas Copyright 2000
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing on a number of research studies of planning and urban policy, ace and Planning asks why racial equality has not been higher on professional and government agendas, and suggests strategies for those working on change. It considers key issues such as how planning activities might lead to more emphasis on the significance of racial equality; might currently it be unwittingly underpinning... Read more
List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Some Key Ideas in Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Planning. 3. Race, Public Policy and Planning in Postwar Britain. 4. Planning in a Racialised Society: Britain in the 1990s. 5. Gypsies, Travellers and the Planning System. 6. Concluding Comments. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Hue Thomas is Reader in the Department of City adn Regional Planning at Cardiff University. He is convenor of the Royal Town Planning Institute's Equal Opportunites (Race Relations) Panel. Over the last ten years he has conducted a series of funded research projects into aspects of race equality and planning.