Rehabilitating Utopias: the Importance of Imagination to Confronting our Spatial Challenges
Rehabilitating Utopias: the Importance of Imagination to Confronting our Spatial Challenges
Summary
Many contend that end-state planning is no longer either acceptable or feasible. However, outside the formal planning system, communities do conceive radical proposals for the places they live in. Our paper makes a plea for a renewed appreciation of Utopias by revealing the diversity of such imagined futures of a place. By means of a review of the nature of 12 locally emerging Utopias in the Netherlands, combined with a literature review, we propose to use spectra to characterise imagined futures, bringing nuance to the debate and a re-appreciation of the transformative power of Utopian stories about futures of places.
Organisation | Hanze |
Published in | Planning Practice and Research Taylor and Francis Ltd., Pagina's: 1-20 |
Date | 2021-07-15 |
Type | Journal article |
DOI | 10.1080/02697459.2021.1954750 |
Language | English |