Essay: Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards ‘South-Eastern’ Perspectives

Yes, this is what they did to Tallinn . . . in a city where about 50 percent of the population is Russian, they simply removed all Russian signs, billboards, street names and Russian sounding businesses . . . Russian is not an official language, so we cannot use it in planning discussions and city government . . . we are wiped out of our own city, where most of us were born . . . (we are) now the invisible half of this place which still remains our homeland. (Vadim Polischuk, Russian human rights activist, Tallinn, Estonia, personal interview, May 2005)