Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions by Timothy J. Dixon

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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.

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**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.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Dixon is Professor of Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment at the University of Reading.Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Cities and Regions at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London.

Table of Contents

Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions Cities and integrated urban challenges Reimagining the city: views of the future from the past and presentPlanning and governing the future city Future narratives for the city: smart and sustainable? Theoretical approaches to urban futures Using city foresight methods to develop city visions Shaping the future: city vision case studies The innovative and experimental city Visioning and planning the city in an urban age: a reality checkConclusions: facing the urban future to 2050 and beyond

Review

"This excellent book exposes important ideas in an accessible way, while remaining practical because it doesn't limit itself to theoretical discussions. It deals with issues that are at the heart of urban planning." Revue d'Économie Régionale & Urbaine

Long Description

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.

Feature

- Explores how our visions of desirable urban futures have developed and continue to evolve;- Looks at the key benefits and challenges in developing visions of urban futures for practitioners and policymakers;- Shows how urban foresight and city visions can help practitioners and policymakers with sustainable urban development.

Details ISBN1447330935 Short Title Urban Futures Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1447330935 ISBN-13 9781447330936 Format Hardcover Imprint Policy Press Subtitle Planning for City Foresight and City Visions Author Mark Tewdwr-Jones UK Release Date 2021-05-19 Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-05-19 Illustrations 13 Tables, black and white; 39 Illustrations, black and white Pages 300 Publisher Bristol University Press Publication Date 2021-05-19 Alternative 9781447336297 DEWEY 307.1216 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-05-18 We've got this

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