Urban Futures
eBook - ePub

Urban Futures

Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban Futures

Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

About this book

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award.

City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory.

It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contrasting their development and outlining the key benefits and challenges in planning such visions.

The authors show how important it is to think about the future of cities in objective and strategic ways, engaging with a range of stakeholders – something more important than ever as we look to visions of a sustainable future beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures, tables and boxes
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions
  10. 2 Cities and integrated urban challenges
  11. 3 Reimagining the city: views of the future from the past and present
  12. 4 Planning and governing the future city
  13. 5 Future narratives for the city: smart and sustainable?
  14. 6 Theoretical approaches to urban futures
  15. 7 Using city foresight methods to develop city visions
  16. 8 Shaping the future: city vision case studies
  17. 9 The innovative and experimental city
  18. 10 Visioning and planning the city in an urban age: a reality check
  19. 11 Conclusions: facing the urban future to 2050 and beyond
  20. Appendix: selected examples of city visions
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index