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Scenarios of Change in Urban Environments
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« Scenarios of Change in Urban Environments »,
Futures Research Quarterly,
1995,
p. 5-19.
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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