3- ANTIRACIST URBAN APPROACHES:
Solutions Brought About to Overcome Urban Racism
Urban planning is an interdisciplinary branch that deals with not only spatial issues but also social sciences and effects of social concerns on cities and urban life. One of the main purposes of planning is to provide and sustain the continuity and communication between the land and the communities. On the contrary, today’s political structure forces communities to do each other dirt. Segregation policies such as providing poor public services to ethnic neighborhoods, differences between the school system of dominant communities and ethnic groups which contributes to negative attitudes in the society towards immigrants, formation of negative stereotypes. Intolerance of ethnicities increases and communities start to fall apart instead of exploring the common and eventually forms today’s racism.
Solutions for urban racism have been lately discussed a lot especially in European countries. And there has been several programs conducted to reduce social inequality as it was mentioned in chapter 2 under the light of Frankfurt and Stuttgart. One of the solutions brought about is a greater ethnic mixing. The Home Office report has recommended that future housing schemes should be ethnically mixed Report focuses on ways of fostering a coherent and integrated …show more content…
Racism in urban environment is a very broad issue, which has crucial effects on spatial dynamics; therefore it would be not useful to look for superficial solutions to reduce it. In this sense spatial decisions are determinative. If it is considered that personal racism is both a reason and a consequence of institutional and structural racism, planning policies play a significant role dealing with
Solutions Brought About to Overcome Urban Racism
Urban planning is an interdisciplinary branch that deals with not only spatial issues but also social sciences and effects of social concerns on cities and urban life. One of the main purposes of planning is to provide and sustain the continuity and communication between the land and the communities. On the contrary, today’s political structure forces communities to do each other dirt. Segregation policies such as providing poor public services to ethnic neighborhoods, differences between the school system of dominant communities and ethnic groups which contributes to negative attitudes in the society towards immigrants, formation of negative stereotypes. Intolerance of ethnicities increases and communities start to fall apart instead of exploring the common and eventually forms today’s racism.
Solutions for urban racism have been lately discussed a lot especially in European countries. And there has been several programs conducted to reduce social inequality as it was mentioned in chapter 2 under the light of Frankfurt and Stuttgart. One of the solutions brought about is a greater ethnic mixing. The Home Office report has recommended that future housing schemes should be ethnically mixed Report focuses on ways of fostering a coherent and integrated …show more content…
Racism in urban environment is a very broad issue, which has crucial effects on spatial dynamics; therefore it would be not useful to look for superficial solutions to reduce it. In this sense spatial decisions are determinative. If it is considered that personal racism is both a reason and a consequence of institutional and structural racism, planning policies play a significant role dealing with