Urban Futures : : Planning for City Foresight and City Visions / / Timothy J. Dixon, Mark Tewdwr-Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Dixon, Timothy J.,; Tewdwr-Jones, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Wilson, Sir Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 39 Black and White

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- 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 present -- Planning 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 check -- Conclusions: facing the urban future to 2050 and beyond -- Appendix: selected examples of city visions -- Notes -- References -- Index