Can Indigenous culture ever coexist with urban planning?

Submitted by Paul Daley on Tue, 22/11/2016 - 12:31pm

A new book examines what actually happens when urban planning meets the claims and struggles of Indigenous people in Australian and Canadian cities

In Australia the acknowledgement of Indigenous land ownership, of custodians past and present, is now pretty much mandatory at official functions.

“This is Indigenous land,” you’ll often hear a non-Indigenous speaker say, sometimes after a prominent Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander has spoken a welcome to country. “Always was, always will be.”