Chan, W.F. (2007) Writing multiculturalism? Planning for culturally different identities in the city of Birmingham. Planning Theory and Practice, 8 (1). pp. 69-85. ISSN 1464-9357
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This article presents a case study of a multicultural planning epistemology at work in the everyday landscape of a city. It draws on insights in cultural geography and the planning archive on Birmingham's Chinese Quarter, to show that the epistemology in play weaves together claims of a factual, authentic multiculturalism based on particular presences with an implicit planning imaginary of cultural identity. It then demonstrates that the planning imaginary in question is structured like a text with a signifying system containing mimetic and disseminative properties. The article concludes by proposing a number of implications from the case study for the planning of Birmingham's multicultural future.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 8826 |
| Keywords: | Birmingham, multiculturalism, planning imaginary, cultural identity, Chinese Quarter, Highbury, Geography. Anthropology. Recreation |
| Subjects: | Geography. Anthropology. Recreation |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Geography |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2009 15:38 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 12:35 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/8826 |
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