Planning for Coexistence? (Recognizing Indigenous rights through land-use planning in Canada and Australia)

By Comparing the experiences of four Indigenous communities who are challenging and renegotiating land-use planning in Victoria, Australia and British Columbia, Canada, this book breaks new ground in our understanding of contemporary Indigenous land justice politics. It is the first study to grapple with what it means for planning to engage with Indigenous peoples in major cities, and the first of its kind to compare the underlying conditions that produce very different outcomes in urban and non-urban planning contexts This book lays the theoretical, methodological and practical groundwork for imagining what planning for coexistence might look like: a relational, decolonizing planning praxis where self-determining Indigenous peoples invite settler-colonial states to their planning table on their terms.