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Increasing social diversity, entrenched spatial inequalities, spatial exclusions and injustices, environmental degradations, and rising levels of urbanization in India are some of the main causes for discussing multiplicity of planning knowledges. It is argued that if these complex issues were to be better understood and peacefully resolved, we need to include a variety of knowledges when training of planning students. Since planning schools produce fresh planners and retrain practicing planners, there is no better place to begin talking about planning knowledges in opposition to the body of planning knowledge. This chapter attempts to make that beginning with the hope that some changes in planning curricula involving multiplicity of knowledges will follow.
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Kumar, A. (2016). An Exploration into the Multiplicity of Planning Knowledges. In: Kumar, A., Meshram, D., Gowda, K. (eds) Urban and Regional Planning Education . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0608-1_6
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