Limiting Urban Futures
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Description: An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures.
Limiting urban futures: scenario-based urban planning. All planning can be considered as an attempt to restrict possible futures. Usually this is not stated explicitly. However, 'futures scenarios' are explicit rejections of other possible futures. They have become fashionable again, as they were in the 1960's. Usually, a small number of alternative scenarios is presented: they indicate the range of futures considered acceptable. In other words, the range of acceptable future cities is made visible by the choice of scenarios. 'Acceptable', that is, to the people who prepared the scenarios. That is usually the city or regional government: sometimes, a private organisation funded by local elites. The Amsterdam study TVA is used here as an example of how such future studies limit urban futures. Originally written 1998, some later revisions.
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