E-grāmata: Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

I highly recommend this book to academics, researchers, professionals and students who work in planning, policy-making, and urban design. Dixon and Tewdwr-Jones thoughtfully recommend a participatory-based city visioning tool that is crucial to protect our democratic values in planning for the future. Planning Theory The book provides a framework to discuss visioning and strategizing for cities and urban regions, not only from an academic but also even more so from a planning practice point of view, developing an analysis, design and policy perspective. European Planning Studies 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 "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 dÉconomie Régionale & Urbaine