Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

Hardback

Main Details

Title Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Timothy J. Dixon
By (author) Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:300
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreSustainability
ISBN/Barcode 9781447330936
ClassificationsDewey:307.1216
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 13 Tables, black and white; 39 Illustrations, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Bristol University Press
Imprint Policy Press
Publication Date 19 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

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.

Reviews

"This book is scholarly, rich in ideas, and offers a toolkit for city and regional governments and communities to build visions and explore ways of achieving them. It will be part of the foundations of future city planning." Sir Alan Wilson, The Alan Turing Institute "This is an inspirational intervention in thinking about cities of tomorrow. Ethically committed, practical and scholarly in avoiding the hubris of too many soothsayers of urban futures." Michael Keith, University of Oxford "Too often planners, fearing to impose top-down solutions, fail to offer needed expertise. This important volume both envisions desirable futures and provides designs for reaching them without insisting on any one solution." Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University