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Are you interested in positive urban visioning?

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Debate of the article titled Positive visions for guiding urban transformations toward sustainable futures from 2016, by Timon McPhearson, David M Iwaniec, and Xuemei Bai, published in the Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability journal.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Jocelyn Chiew in episode 376 talking about the importance of creating visions for our urban environments to guide our actions.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how establishing desirable scenarios can effectively direct decision-making instead of fearmongering. This article promotes linking positive visioning processes with on-the-ground action through participatory and systemic approaches for true urban transformations.

Find the article through this link.

Abstract: Much of the discourse around urban and global futures tends to be dystopian with visions of environmental and societal collapse, and business as usual forecasts that challenge planning and policymaking for more optimistic urban futures. More recently, research and practice demonstrate the role of positives visions that allow exploration of alternative and desirable futures in developing positive plans and delivering desirable outcomes for cities. We review the role of positive visioning and associated future scenarios for transformations that can guide decision-making for plausible, desirable, and sustainable urban futures. We discuss key challenges and tensions in visioning processes and suggest paths forward for positive visioning as a key tool for resilience and sustainability planning and to guide implementation.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.109R – How much sustainability substance is in urban visions? An analysis of visioning projects in urban planning
• No.370 – Interview with Vít Jedlicka about an ambitious urban future production in Liberland

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