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Planning in the Limelight of an Unpredictable Future
In accordance with the line of thought of Scholl (2005), we create urban planning strategies which act as guidelines into the future. Obviously, imagined futures are helpful in debating the decisions and choices to be made. However, imagining futures by extrapolating facts from the past and the here and now does have is limited. Thinking along linear Newtonian cause-effect lines seems dubious from the perspective of a world considered to be in continuous change. The Newtonian worldview has been favoured in spatial planning for a long time. This technical paradigm addresses the idea of a factual reality, a certainty within the reach and a linear route into the future. Apart from a factual reality, an agreed reality is also considered to respond to the built environment. However, we have to be aware that the only constant factor is probably discontinuous change. Kropf (2001) notes that urban form and the social and economic life of cities are best apprehended by descriptions of inter-alia transformation, cycles, growth and decay, catastrophes, shifting centres of activity, dynamics and influence.
Planning in the Limelight of an Unpredictable Future
In accordance with the line of thought of Scholl (2005), we create urban planning strategies which act as guidelines into the future. Obviously, imagined futures are helpful in debating the decisions and choices to be made. However, imagining futures by extrapolating facts from the past and the here and now does have is limited. Thinking along linear Newtonian cause-effect lines seems dubious from the perspective of a world considered to be in continuous change. The Newtonian worldview has been favoured in spatial planning for a long time. This technical paradigm addresses the idea of a factual reality, a certainty within the reach and a linear route into the future. Apart from a factual reality, an agreed reality is also considered to respond to the built environment. However, we have to be aware that the only constant factor is probably discontinuous change. Kropf (2001) notes that urban form and the social and economic life of cities are best apprehended by descriptions of inter-alia transformation, cycles, growth and decay, catastrophes, shifting centres of activity, dynamics and influence.
Planning in the Limelight of an Unpredictable Future
Yamu, Claudia (author) / Dembski, Fabian / Voigt, Andreas / Yamu, Claudia
2016-01-01
Yamu , C 2016 , Planning in the Limelight of an Unpredictable Future . in F Dembski , A Voigt & C Yamu (eds) , Departure to New Worlds . TU Wien , Vienna , pp. 24–27 .
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710
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