Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.

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John Ratcliffe is Professor Emeritus at Dublin University of Technology. He practised as a chartered planning and development consultant for many years. John is now a Strategic Foresight consultant for the built environment.

Michael Stubbs is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He specialises in planning work and is a visiting tutor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

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Preface

Exordium (Spirit of the Work). Humankind 2050: Built Environment Challenges. A personal reflection by Prof John Ratcliffe

THEME ONE: Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place

Discourse 1: 'Imagine Ahead - Plan Backwards': The Art and Science of Strategic Foresight

Discourse 2: The 'Big Questions': A Cosmos of Uncertainty

Discourse 3: The Premium of Place

Discourse 4: Cultural Heritage Futures

Discourse 5: Post-pandemic: Disruptions, Aftershocks and Opportunities

THEME TWO: Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership

Discourse 6: Can the World Be Governed?

Discourse 7: A New Sense of the Commons.

Discourse 8: The Pantheon of Public-Private Partnership.

Discourse 9: Anticipatory Leadership and Fostering Deliberative Democracy

Discourse 10: China and the World: A Changing Relationship

THEME THREE: Innovation, Reform and Exemplars

Discourse 11: Whither Work and the Workplace?

Discourse 12: Reconceptualising Higher Education

Discourse 13: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Discourse 14: Critical Infrastructure and Global Megaprojects

Discourse 15: Health, Well-Being and Happiness

THEME FOUR: Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations

Discourse 16: Smart Cities and Smart Property Markets

Discourse 17: The 'Great Land Question'

Discourse 18: Transforming the Professions of the Built Environment

Discourse 19: Values and Valuation

Index