Planning and governing the future city

Abstract

This chapter examines the more recent evolution of urban planning and its response to these contextual, state and neoliberal pressures, and explore how city visioning can still help develop a stronger focus for an activity that is referred to as futures-based urban planning in and for our cities and urban areas. The links between urban planning, city foresight and wider state theory are explored and the implications of city visioning and long-term strategic planning in cities are highlighted. The focus in the chapter is on exploring the changing role that planning and city foresight might play within the future governance of the city, and how place-based leadership and place management can reinvigorate urban planning approaches.