Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

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? 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 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 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 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 Timothy J. Dixon And Mark Tewdwr-jones. 10 Visioning And Planning The City In An Urban Age: A Reality Check. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.