Rising complexities and uncertainties have emphasized the need to employ scenario
thinking in urban design and planning. While different scenario methods have been widely …

Adopting nature-based solutions (NbS) in urban planning is not mainstream due to
insufficient knowledge or incentives for implementation. Game-based approaches may …

Even though urban land-use change simulations provide useful information for decision
makers, planning is generally weakly integrated into land-change modelling. However, the …

We urgently need to put the concept of resilience into practice if we are to prepare our
communities for climate change and exacerbated natural hazards. Yet, despite the extensive …

Futures studies concepts are complex and challenging to communicate and elaborate on.
Visual artefacts exist to aid this process. Variants of futures cones, plausibility cones, or …

Urban development is a process that becomes increasingly complex as the city evolves and
in which unexpected events can happen which may alter the envisaged trend over time. To …

Over the past 25 years, the study of driving forces of landscape change has developed into a
central theme in land change science by contributing to theory development, promoting the …

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic escalated. While the infection initially
appeared to be a distant, regionally contained problem that the European public would have …

Abstract Transit Oriented Development (TOD) within existing urban areas often confronts
entrenched community resistance. This paper documents the results of an Australian survey …

In this editorial we explore how the concept of the city region has evolved and what
questions this raises for the role of urban futures, including visioning and foresight. The …