Scenarios of Change in Urban Environments

This study is a result of prolonged and never-ending debate among optimists, pessimists, possibilists or "creative realists". These three perspectives are applied to futures for four urban types "chosen from among a score of worthy candidates" : 1) hard-edge city : the toughest case of all : older industrial cities in a downward spiral (possibilists seek to revise archaic housing codes, facilitate urban homesteading, delegate decision-making power to neighbourhoods, expand urban gardens and energy-conservation projects) ; 2) edge city : suburbs that attract their own ...

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