A future for cities? Building new methodologies and systems for urban foresight

Town Planning Review

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 773-794

  Tewdwr Jones, Mark ^a   Goddard, John ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities; Foresight; Intelligence; Scenarios; Strategies; Systems; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

PLANNING SYSTEM; POLICY APPROACH; RESEARCH METHOD; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84928339497     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2014.46     Document Type: Article

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