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

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.

Preface

Exordium (Spirit of the Work). Humankind 2050: Built Environment Challenges. A personal reflection by Prof John Ratcliffe

THEME ONE: Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place

Discourse 1: 'Imagine Ahead - Plan Backwards': The Art and Science of Strategic Foresight

Discourse 2: The 'Big Questions': A Cosmos of Uncertainty

Discourse 3: The Premium of Place

Discourse 4: Cultural Heritage Futures

Discourse 5: Post-pandemic: Disruptions, Aftershocks and Opportunities

THEME TWO: Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership

Discourse 6: Can the World Be Governed?

Discourse 7: A New Sense of the Commons.

Discourse 8: The Pantheon of Public-Private Partnership.

Discourse 9: Anticipatory Leadership and Fostering Deliberative Democracy

Discourse 10: China and the World: A Changing Relationship

THEME THREE: Innovation, Reform and Exemplars

Discourse 11: Whither Work and the Workplace?

Discourse 12: Reconceptualising Higher Education

Discourse 13: Enterprise and Entrepreneurshipl“)