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Writing Multiculturalism? Planning for Culturally Different Identities in the City of Birmingham
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.
When postmodern architectural ‘historicism’ borrows architectural idioms from far-flung periods without any regard for idiomatic coherence or reproduction of appropriate context, this … can be seen as a foregrounding of radical citationality, of the suggestion that the ‘aura’ of the original cannot be structurally privileged. (Spivak, 1999, p. 331)
Writing Multiculturalism? Planning for Culturally Different Identities in the City of Birmingham
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.
When postmodern architectural ‘historicism’ borrows architectural idioms from far-flung periods without any regard for idiomatic coherence or reproduction of appropriate context, this … can be seen as a foregrounding of radical citationality, of the suggestion that the ‘aura’ of the original cannot be structurally privileged. (Spivak, 1999, p. 331)
Writing Multiculturalism? Planning for Culturally Different Identities in the City of Birmingham
Chan, Wun Fung (author)
Planning Theory & Practice ; 8 ; 69-85
2007-03-01
17 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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