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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. Four major themes form the basis of the volume:
(1) Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place.
(2) Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership.
(3) Innovation, Reform and Exemplars.
(4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations.
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 organisations, individuals, cities or communities - to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students, practitioners, agencies and corporations across the built environment, especially in the fields of urban planning, real estate development, architecture, civil engineering and construction.
List of contents
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 Entrepreneurship
Discourse 14: Critical Infrastructure and Global Megaprojects
Discourse 15: Health, Well-Being and Happiness
THEME FOUR: Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations
Discourse 16: Smart Cities and Smart Property Markets
Discourse 17: The 'Great Land Question'
Discourse 18: Transforming the Professions of the Built Environment
Discourse 19: Values and Valuation
Index
Summary
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.
