This research examines the scope for the application of future methodologies in urban planning processes. As contemporary cities undergo rapid changes resulting from technological and cultural transformations, expanding globalisation and new economic trends, the traditional ways in which cities were planned and managed become less effective, especially in times of accelerating change and growing complexities This research addresses an increasingly recognised need for a major shift in the way of thinking and acting about the future of cities, a shift from the traditional planning mind-set to a more imaginative, innovative and inclusive approach. The main aims of the study were to gain an understanding of how the future is created in the curr...
We are living in times of unprecedented global change and upheaval and over the next ten to 20 years...
This contribution illustrates some possible applications of futures studies – more specifically of t...
What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global cha...
In recent years, cities and urban regions have been increasingly applying various forms of strategic...
Contemporary cities can be characterised by a high pace of change and the growing complexity of thei...
We are currently living through an era where we can, and need to, create exciting new possibilities ...
We are currently living through an era where we can, and need to, create exciting new possibilities ...
This paper argues that urban planners and policy-makers lack an effective future-oriented approach e...
The speed, scale, and scope of urbanisation in the past decades are unprecedented in world history, ...
The increasing concerns across Europe for the likely future urban environments of its major city re...
Cities have become a global focus for tackling major climate change and resource depletion issues, ...
More than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas putting the city on the frontline of ...
The paper reviews the manner in which urban planning in Dublin has changed in response to central go...
Conditions of uncertainty, rapid change and heightened social, economic and spatial inequalities are...
The culmination of a four–year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities,...
We are living in times of unprecedented global change and upheaval and over the next ten to 20 years...
This contribution illustrates some possible applications of futures studies – more specifically of t...
What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global cha...
In recent years, cities and urban regions have been increasingly applying various forms of strategic...
Contemporary cities can be characterised by a high pace of change and the growing complexity of thei...
We are currently living through an era where we can, and need to, create exciting new possibilities ...
We are currently living through an era where we can, and need to, create exciting new possibilities ...
This paper argues that urban planners and policy-makers lack an effective future-oriented approach e...
The speed, scale, and scope of urbanisation in the past decades are unprecedented in world history, ...
The increasing concerns across Europe for the likely future urban environments of its major city re...
Cities have become a global focus for tackling major climate change and resource depletion issues, ...
More than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas putting the city on the frontline of ...
The paper reviews the manner in which urban planning in Dublin has changed in response to central go...
Conditions of uncertainty, rapid change and heightened social, economic and spatial inequalities are...
The culmination of a four–year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities,...
We are living in times of unprecedented global change and upheaval and over the next ten to 20 years...
This contribution illustrates some possible applications of futures studies – more specifically of t...
What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global cha...