Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity

Pemberton

Abstract

Little attention to date has focused on the role of urban planning in responding to migration-related super-diversity. Through a focus on a city (Liverpool, UK) which is becoming increasingly super-diverse, the paper highlights the importance of class based differences – over and above ethnic and cultural differences – in shaping the practices of urban planners. Along with the recency and speed of population change, the importance of legal status and the 'visibility' of super-diversity, this may serve to increase the risk of urban planning equivalising differences between residents and concealing issues of racism and discrimination.

• Acceptance Date: Sep 26, 2016
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2017
• Journal: Policy and Politics: an international journal
• Print ISSN: 0305-5736
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Pages: 623 -641
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14755958613727
• Keywords: urban planning, Liverpool, social class, class differences, diversity, racism, discrimination, class, recency, super-diversity, visibility
• Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14755958613727