Alternative City Futures
Dr Phillip Daffara co-edited a special issue of the Futures Journal with Prof Sohail Inayatullah, called Alternative City Futures (Volume 43, Issue 7, September 2011).
The edition focusses on three areas of city futures work:
- To present macrohistories, emerging issues, trends and scenarios for cities (local and global contexts) shaping their alternative futures.
- To discuss the methodologies, concepts and techniques for building the city foresight capacities of stakeholders and how to engage them to explore alternative urban futures.
- To critique case studies of city foresight projects, demonstrating what worked well, needs improvement and proposing areas of further applied research.
Contributing authors:
Dr Phillip Daffara: Introduction – Alternative City Futures
Chap1, Prof. John Ratcliffe et al: Imagineering City Futures - The Use of Prospective through Scenarios in Urban Planning
Chap2, Prof. Sohail Inayatullah: City futures in transformation – Emerging Issues and case studies
Chap3, Dr Cindy F Wuellner - Beyond Economic and Value Wars: Mythic Images of Future Cities
Chap4, Prof Timothy F. Smith et al.: A Method for Building Community Resilience to Climate Change in Emerging Coastal Cities
Chap5, Dr Phillip Daffara: Rethinking Tomorrow’s Cities – Emerging issues on City Foresight
Case Studies:
Chap6, Devin Fidler et al.: Evaluating a Long-Term Livable Communities Strategy in the U.S.
Chap7, Jaizuluddin Mahmud - CITY FORESIGHT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: Implementation of Scenario Planning in Formulation of the Bulungan Development Plan
Chap8, Aumnad Phdungsilp - Futures studies’ backcasting method used for strategic sustainable city planning
