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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1991 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 0893-0465
- eISSN
- 1548-744X
- DOI
- 10.1525/city.1991.5.1.3
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
APPRECIATE THE INVITATION TO evaluate the articles that composed the December 1990 issue of City & Society, and I want to thank its editor, Alvin Wolfe, for the opportunity. A number of considerations make this task worthwhile: the important and evocative theme regarding the implication of different planning modes for economic and social development that the articles address, the high quality of research they represent, and the diversity of points of view they provide. Two factors made this task especially appealing to me. The first derives from the historical location of the research. At the moment the world system is experiencing a displacement of the convergence and centralization of power and authority structures that have marked, for some long time now, the evolution of its social organization, and I think this process will continue well into the future. The trajectory of this process seems to be a devolutionary divergence and decentralization of the world system manifest in a reformulation of cultural identities based on national, religious, linguistic, racial, and other criteria that, in general, may be referred to as "ethnic." A concern regarding how to plan for the problems this new worldwide cultural and ethnic diversity will present
Journal
City & Society – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 1991