My project will examine the intersections between the colonial legacies of planning and the post-war settlement of visible ethnic and racial minorities from the New Commonwealth in British cities. I will explore how racial ideologies and strategies practiced in colonial settings have influenced urban planning. My research will draw on a mix of archival research and oral histories to examine a variety of government interventions in fields such as housing, strategic planning, and urban development as well as associated forms of community organising and grassroots resistance. The key output of my fellowship will be a research monograph under the working title "Race, governmentality, and urban planning in post-war Britain" under contract with University of California Press. My research addresses a critical gap in urban planning scholarship, namely the ongoing disconnection between British planning and colonial planning practices that have hitherto been treated as separate fields in the historiography of the discipline. It is noteworthy that planning lags far behind other cognate disciplines such as geography and sociology in terms of critically evaluating the colonial legacies for professional expertise in the urban arena. My study will fill this gap by providing an original contribution to knowledge that will be of interest to a wide audience, including readers outside the academy. In particular, my project stresses the need to understand the dual dynamics of colonial governmentalities within the planning system that have underpinned connections between empire and metropole across a series of architectonic, cultural, political, and ideological spheres.