Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future

A Built Environment Bricolage

John Ratcliffe, Michael Stubbs

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000904000
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Aménagement urbain et paysager

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades. Four major themes form the basis of the volume:

(1) Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place.

(2) Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership.

(3) Innovation, Reform and Exemplars.

(4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations.

Within these structural themes are a diverse range of 'Discourses' addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us, together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today – whether by organisations, individuals, cities or communities – to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students, practitioners, agencies and corporations across the built environment, especially in the fields of urban planning, real estate development, architecture, civil engineering and construction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Exordium (Spirit of the Work). Humankind 2050: Built Environment Challenges. A personal reflection by Prof John Ratcliffe
• Theme One Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place
• Theme Two Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership
• Theme Three Innovation, Reform and Exemplars
• Theme Four Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations
• Index