Urban futures : planning for city foresight and city visions /

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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Main Authors: Dixon, Timothy J., 1958- (Author), Tewdwr-Jones, Mark (Author)
Other Authors: Wilson, A. G. 1939- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions -- Introduction -- A growing focus on cities: changing narratives -- The importance of cities in the Anthropocene: planning for their long-term future(s) -- Conceptual framework for the book and key themes -- 2 Cities and integrated urban challenges -- Introduction -- What is a city? 
505 8 |a Urbanisation -- the past, the present and future trends -- An urban paradox? Integrated challenges for cities -- Urban planning and practice -- Summary -- 3 Reimagining the city: views of the future from the past and present -- Introduction -- Visions -- shared expectations of the future? -- Seeing into the future: a short history -- Utopic and dystopic visions: the role and influence of the city in literature and film -- The utopic tradition in urban planning -- Ebenezer Howard -- Patrick Geddes -- Summary -- 4 Planning and governing the future city -- Introduction -- How we govern the urban 
505 8 |a Selecting the form of urban planning in a new 'urban age' -- The 21st century case for urban planning -- Summary -- 5 Future narratives for the city: smart and sustainable? -- Conceptualising and typifying the city: the evolution of thinking about cities -- Sustainable cities -- Smart cities -- Smart and sustainable thinking: projects, experiments and the role of city visions -- Summary -- 6 Theoretical approaches to urban futures -- Introduction -- Cities: pathways for change -- Urban transition and transformation -- the role of transitions theory 
505 8 |a Applying transition theory to cities: pathways and visions -- Retrofit 2050 -- Visions and Pathways 2040 -- Mitigation in Urban Areas: Solutions for Innovative Cities (MUSIC) -- Summary -- 7 Using city foresight methods to develop city visions -- Introduction and background -- What is city foresight? -- What is a city vision and how can it be developed? -- City visions -- City foresight methods -- City visioning: examples -- Reading 2050 -- Newcastle City Futures 2065 -- Other city visioning examples -- Summary -- 8 Shaping the future: city vision case studies -- Introduction 
505 8 |a From masterplans to city visions -- Case studies: participatory foresight-based city visions in the UK -- Reading 2050 -- Newcastle City Futures 2065 -- What makes a 'good' city vision? -- An imperfect world? The opportunities and challenges for city visions -- Summary -- 9 The innovative and experimental city -- Introduction -- Cities, urban innovation and urban experiments -- Innovation, experimental and engagement 'spaces' -- Place-based leadership and the role of the civic university -- Case study: Newcastle City Futures Urban Living Partnership -- Summary 
505 8 |a 10 Visioning and planning the city in an urban age: a reality check. 
520 |a 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index. 
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