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Diversity-Blind Planning

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Farming on the Fringe

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This chapter explores the way in which engagement with culturally diverse minority groups is a challenge for urban planners. This chapter outlines the literature on this issue and then explores how the CALD growers were engaged with in the development of the Metropolitan Strategy, as key stakeholders in the process. It also provides insight into the challenges of engagement from the view of the government representatives involved in this planning process. It concludes with a discussion of the potential for a more engaged approach through the adoption of an intercultural perspective to urban planning, and what implications this has for a ‘common good’ such as urban agriculture.

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    This book discusses ‘diversity’ as cultural diversity . Debates about planning for diversity, however, also address differences within a population along lines such as age (such as youth and the elderly), gender, sexual orientation and religion (Young 1990; Iveson 2000; Fincher and Iveson 2008).

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James, S. (2016). Diversity-Blind Planning. In: Farming on the Fringe. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32235-3_4

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