The planning research agenda: plural cities, equity and rights of citizenship

摘要

Today it is self-evident that across the world we all - more or less - live in plural cities. A large body of literature has been built upon how contemporary society, which was at least relatively homogeneous in the past, is now gradually turning into a fragmented and complex society, where minority and majority groups coexist more or less in peace. A number of factors connected to development and underdevelop-ment processes as well as to the phenomenon of social polarisation on a world scale are seen to be connected to this transformation. As a consequence, new, unexpected geographies are being created and old phenomena are taking new forms and dimensions. In this new geography of exclusion, fostered by the mechanisms of the new capitalist system and the crisis of the welfare state, inequality in cities is spreading significantly.