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Urban Futures
Planning for City Foresight and City Visions
EPUB
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ISBN-13:
9781447336303
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
300
Autor:
Timothy J. Dixon
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visionsCities and integrated urban challengesReimagining the city: views of the future from the past and presentPlanning and governing the future cityFuture narratives for the city: smart and sustainable?Theoretical approaches to urban futuresUsing city foresight methods to develop city visionsShaping the future: city vision case studiesThe innovative and experimental cityVisioning and planning the city in an urban age: a reality checkConclusions: facing the urban future to 2050 and beyond
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.