By Dory Reeves
The sensible value of range and equality for spatial making plans and sustainable improvement remains to be now not greatly understood. utilizing foreign examples, this publication exhibits planners and educationalists the advantages of development in a attention of range and equality at every one degree and point of planning.Despite being some of the most diversified and gender balanced of the equipped surroundings professions, complacency has been common in making plans. This ebook exhibits why a various occupation is critical and drawing on a variety of strong perform, indicates how these focused on making plans can strengthen their sensitivity to and services in variety and equality.
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Spatial planning therefore has an important role to play in tackling social exclusion—when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as environments, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime rates, bad health and family breakdown. Poverty is gendered and racialized (Oxfam, 2003). Mobility and accessibility are particular issues for disabled and older people. Spatial plans can show how places connect and how these connections and links can be improved, what needs protecting in terms of heritage, what development is needed in terms of housing, work places, leisure and recreation.
Futurology texts tend to take a common approach to difference and diversity (McRae, 1995; Mercer, 1998; Matathia and Salzman, 1999; Margolis, 2001; Salzman, 2003). All refer to the changing role of women and men and the ever-increasing role women will play in society. The growth in power, and especially the influence, held by women in the twenty-first century cannot be overestimated and there are those who argue that the impact has been much greater than formerly appreciated (Mercer, 1998:93, 96).
Where we live defines us. Where we live affects how we live, whom we interact with, and what we eat, our moods and feelings, our health and well-being. Places shape the way we live our lives, our access to water, whether we have electricity, the opportunities we have to get a paid job, how easy it is to get to school or to health care, how to keep in touch with friends and relatives. Places are for experiencing (Hiss, 1990). If our sense of ‘who we are’ is based on our personal and social identity, our sense of place also reflects this.