Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future: A Built Environment Bricolage

This book offers innovative approaches to thinking about the future of the built environment, addressing challenges and opportunities through four major themes: Future Awareness, Global Governance, Innovation, and Urban Planning. It provides a methodology and practical illustrations for shaping a preferred future and achieving it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 278 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book offers innovative perspectives and strategies for those involved in envisioning, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying, and managing the built environment to navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities that lie ahead over the next few decades. It is organized into four major themes:
1. Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place: This theme explores the importance of cultivating a sense of future awareness and developing a deeper understanding of the places we inhabit. It emphasizes the need to create environments that are responsive to changing needs and values, and that foster a sense of belonging and connection to the broader community.
2. Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership: This theme examines the role of global governance in shaping the future of the built environment. It explores the challenges and opportunities presented by global trends such as urbanization, climate change, and technological advancements, and proposes strategies for anticipatory leadership and decision-making in response to these challenges.
3. Innovation, Reform, and Exemplars: This theme focuses on the role of innovation and reform in shaping the future of the built environment. It explores the potential of new technologies, sustainable practices, and design principles to create more efficient, sustainable, and resilient built environments. It also showcases examples of successful initiatives and projects that have demonstrated the power of these approaches.
4. Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations: This theme examines the role of urban planning and real estate development in shaping the future of cities and communities. It explores the challenges and opportunities presented by urbanization, demographic changes, and economic development, and proposes strategies for creating more livable, sustainable, and inclusive cities and communities.

Within these structural themes are a diverse range of discourses addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us, together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today – whether by organizations, individuals, cities, or communities – to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. This book will be of immense value to students, practitioners, agencies, and corporations across the built environment, particularly in the fields of urban planning, real estate development, architecture, civil engineering, and construction.

By exploring these themes and providing practical insights and methodologies, this book aims to empower individuals and organizations to play a proactive role in shaping the future of the built environment and creating a more sustainable, resilient, and prosperous world for generations to come.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032410890