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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Preparing for the End of the World
• What’s Driving the ‘Doom Boom’?
• The Crisis in Planning
• Our Collapsing Time Horizons
• How Can Planning Regain its Role?
• References
• 1 The Rise of the New Right and the Attack on Planning
• Not Great Planning Disasters, but Great Policy Disasters
• What the Academic Literature Tells Us about Policy Failure – and What it Neglects
• Three Strategic Policy Failures
• The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
• The Global Financial Crisis
• The UK Leaving the European Union (Brexit)
• What is the New Right?
• The New Right in Government in the UK: The Thatcher Governments and Thatcherism
• The New Right’s Attack on Planning
• The Impossibility of ‘Planning’: Knowledge, Information, and the Price System
• References
• Challenge 1 Population Change and Urban Development
• References
• 2 The New Right and Urban and Regional Planning
• Is Urban and Regional Planning Really a Form of ‘Central Planning’?
• Hayek and Town Planning
• The Problem of Politics
• Market Fundamentalism (or the ‘Good Hayek’ and the ‘Bad Hayek’)
• The Impact of the New Right on Urban and Regional Planning
• How the New Right has Collapsed the Future
• The Neoliberal Now
• Responding to Major Challenges by Largely Ignoring Them
• No Future
• References
• Challenge 2 Climate Change
• References
• 3 Failing to Face the Future: A Pathology of Failing to Plan (But Why We Still Can)
• Facing Death
• Climate Change: The ‘Challenge from Hell’
• (Super) Wicked Problems and (Deep) Uncertainty
• Is Climate Change Really too Wicked to Do Anything About?
• Barriers to Thinking about the Future
• Psychological Barriers
• Social and Cultural Shaping of Issues
• Imagining the Future
• Haven’t We Been Warned Before Though?
• Political Barriers
• Learning to Die – or Learning to Plan Again?
• References
• Challenge 3 Economic and Technological Disruption
• References
• 4 The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Planning
• The Post-War Era: The Age(s) of Planning
• The Master Plan or Blueprint Era
• Northern Approaches to Planning in the Global South
• The Systems Theory/Cybernetics-based Era
• The (Contested) Participation Era
• The Postmodern Era
• Where We Are Now
• Planning Research Has Also Lost Sight of Time
• References
• Challenge 4 Poor Governance and Political Instability
• References
• 5 Planners and Policy-Makers Planning for the Future (Part I)
• Case Study: The Netherlands/Rotterdam – Long-Term Programmes for Environmental and Social Protection
• What is the ‘Long Term’?
• Case Study: New York City – Political Will and Ambition for Long-Term Climate Change Resilience and Sustainability
• We Know What We Need to Do about Climate Change, Including in Urban Areas
• Case Study: Singapore – Long-Term Foresight and Scenarios-based Integrated Planning for National Development
• Scenario Planning and Foresight Tools: Preparedness, Not Predictions
• References
• Challenge 5 Systemic Risk
• References
• 6 Planners and Policy-Makers Planning for the Future (Part II)
• Case Study: The Seychelles – Integrated Long-Term Sustainable Development Planning and Partnerships
• Public Participation: Not a Problem for Thinking about the Long-Term Future, But Crucial to It
• Case Study: Germany’s Energiewende – An Ambitious, Centrally Led Programme for Systemic Change
• Systemic Change Needs Spatial Planning
• Transition Towns: Community-led Integrated Local Planning
• The Significance of Storytelling: Peak Oil, Place, and Possibilities
• References
• 7 Back to the Future: Planning for the Long Term in an Age of Crisis and Short-Termism
• Dark Age Ahead
• Facing the Facts
• The Plausibility of Despair
• Making Hope Possible
• Communicating for a Common Future
• Planning as a ‘Wartime’ Project for Survival and Reconstruction
• Planning for Emergency
• Planning for Reconstruction
• Alternatives from the Global South
• The Future is Also a Major Challenge to Planning and Planners
• The Role of Planning Academia
• The Future is Now
• References
• Index