Pluralism & Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism and pluralism in the contemporary world is avious and very important to be considered in development planning. Pluralism is a theory or doctrine that stongly highlight a condition in which numerous  district ethic, religious or cultural groups are present ans tolerated within a society. Multiculturalism  focuses on the interaction and communication between different cultural backgrounds. In planners are recommended to consider these two idea in the context of planning. The reason is that  people of different cultural background who are living together in a city or area  have different choices, and needs. Therefore planners are recommended to create a new way of planning to meet their needs. It is highlighted that a better regulation is needed to regulated the residential  consentration which consist of people from different cultural background  within and area especially those who are seen as  minority groups. The regulation needed in the planning has to reflect and fulfill diverse needs and goals. There are  some cities  seen to reflect multiculturalism such as toronto nad canada. From these cities there have been issues derived from planning process to respond to the needs of different people with different ethnic background..