Transcribed excerpt from Professor Fincher's lecture:
Today I'll be mentioning a number of different kinds of diversity... and asking the general question, what are our limits in allowing them their expression in the city? I'll be drawing on some of my own recent work, and on the work of lots of colleagues, to make the argument that though we in Australia are well-schooled in the discourses of things like multi-culturalism that value and acknowledge diversity, there is some evidence in our cities that we, some of us, are not very good, in fact, at accommodating or encouraging, and sometimes even tolerating, some differences. And that sometimes visible difference has become tied up with fear, notions of risk, and disorder.
