A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century
As an enduring social project, planning needs to come to terms with the social realities of 21st-century cities. Most Western cities today are demographically multicultural, presenting the challenge of a new urban condition in which difference, otherness, and plurality prevail. This essay asks whether there is a planning imagination capable of responding to the challenges of diversity. I suggest and provide examples of four key qualities of such an imagination: political, audacious, creative, and therapeutic. Embracing these qualities constitutes a cultural change in planners' modes of thinking and practice.
Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century
As an enduring social project, planning needs to come to terms with the social realities of 21st-century cities. Most Western cities today are demographically multicultural, presenting the challenge of a new urban condition in which difference, otherness, and plurality prevail. This essay asks whether there is a planning imagination capable of responding to the challenges of diversity. I suggest and provide examples of four key qualities of such an imagination: political, audacious, creative, and therapeutic. Embracing these qualities constitutes a cultural change in planners' modes of thinking and practice.
Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century
Sandercock, Leonie (author)
Journal of the American Planning Association ; 70 ; 133-141
2004-06-30
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Longer View: Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century
| Online Contents | 2004
MAPPING TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY
| Online Contents | 1996
Transportation Planning in the 21st Century
British Library Online Contents | 1999
Town planning into the 21st century
| TIBKAT | 1997