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Foresight and Design

Composing Future Places

Mark C. Childs

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English
Routledge
14 November 2022
• Draws on emerging practices of foresight to re-examine, enrich, and expand long-standing design practices • Expands how foresight can be used to build resilience and adaptability to multiple different potential futures • Written for architects, designers, planners, developers and engineers, to rigorously think about potential futures and conceptual tools • Includes over 100 black and white illustrations

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   940g
ISBN:   9781032148182
ISBN 10:   1032148187
Pages:   222
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Composing Futures 2. Grounding 3. Framing Case Study 1: The Enduring and the Ephemeral 4. Drivers of Change, Continuity, and Coherence Case Study 2: The McKinley Futures Studio 5. Layers of Change Case Study 3: Public Markets: Timeless Civic Form as Timely 21st Century Social Infrastructure 6. Composing Scenarios Case Study 4: Planning for Uncertainty in Afghanistan 7. Rehearsals Case Study 5: Pathways of Indigenous Futurism 8. Maps of Change 9. Pluripotency 10. Fictions of Place 11. World-Building 12. Stewardship of Place

Mark C. Childs is the author of poems, academic and general audience articles, and award-winning urban design books. He was a senior Fulbright scholar in Cyprus in 2005. Mark recently retired from serving as professor and interim dean of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico. He now lectures and consults.

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