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Shifts are apparent in the spatial distribution of disadvantage in Australia since the 1970s. Not only are new sites of disadvantage emerging (small rural towns, manufacturing centres, coastal welfare regions, some outer suburbs), but research suggests a possible spatial cleavage between best‐accessed Melbourne and Sydney, and 'the rest' of the country. At the same time, examples of provision and delivery of services continue to occur locally andregionally that demonstrate lack of attention to the characteristics of the places in which those services are received. The paper calls for spatially conscious public policy in service delivery, and considers the possibilities of this occurring if governments form partnerships with other organisations to provide services for communities.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Diversity and the 'communicative turn' in planning -- Just diversity and the 'right to the city': redistribution, recognition and encounter as three social logics of urban planning -- Conceptualizing the state -- The rest of the book -- 2. Conceptualizing redistribution in planning -- Redistributive planning -- Important concepts: locational (dis)advantage and accessibility -- Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through redistribution -- Conclusion -- 3. Planning for redistribution in practice -- Redistribution: urban renewal -- Redistribution and recognition: local child care planning for working women -- Redistribution and encounter: deinstitutionalization of people with a mental illness -- Conclusion -- 4. Conceptualizing recognition in planning -- Planning and the politics of difference -- Important concepts: affirmative and relational models of recognition -- Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through recognition -- Conclusion -- 5. Planning for recognition in practice -- Recognition: planning for child friendly cities -- Recognition and redistribution: planning for immigrants -- Recognition and encounter: contesting hetero-normativity through planning -- Conclusion -- 6. Conceptualizing encounter in planning -- Planning for disorder? -- Important concepts: the stranger and conviviality -- Decision rules and discourses: ways of crafting a just diversity through encounter -- Conclusion -- 7. Planning for encounter in practice -- Encounter: street festivals -- Encounter and redistribution: public libraries -- Encounter and recognition: drop-in centres and community centres -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThe transnational immigrant home is understood analytically, in an extensive literature, as a mobile construct that is not necessarily confined in its application to a single locale or building. The home has significant symbolic meaning for transnationals, as well as referring to their places of residence. In this study, however, we explore the physical structure of the transnational immigrant home and its materiality – the house. We examine two distinct types of homes of Italian immigrants in Melbourne – their past houses in Italy and their current houses in Melbourne. We argue that these houses form tangible links within Italian–Australian social space, and are parts of a network that constructs this transnational space. It is necessary to consider the actual materiality of such houses in order to extend the common understanding of 'home', seeing it not only as an abstract idea but also as a specifically located tangible structure and an active participant in the formation of transnational social spaces.