Plural Cities

Plural Cities
Cities in which there is no single majority ethnic group.

Addressing the Royal Commonwealth Society in January 2008, Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, cited “the phenomenon of the plural city – cities in which no one ethnic group holds the demographic majority,” and described such conurbations as “the urban societies of the future,” which promise “energy” and “creativity.”

According to research quoted in The Guardian, Leicester is predicted to become Britain’s first plural city by about 2019, with Birmingham due to follow in 2024.


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