Journal article
Macrohistory and City Futures
Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.9(1), pp.13-30
2004
Abstract
When our cities are headed is a question being investigated globally by many stakeholders of our urban futures. This piece examines the possible, probable and plausible futures of the city, and what these may look like. The method used to extrapolate these futures is macrohistorical analysis. Positioning the current state of our globalised cities within different models of cultural/historical change gives us the grand patterns for the future of the city. The conclusion shows the ways in which the city is a tangible cultural product of civilization and how the city can be positively used as a catalyst towards the development a planetary human civilization.
Details
- Title
- Macrohistory and City Futures
- Authors
- Phillip Daffara (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.9(1), pp.13-30
- Publisher
- Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
- Date published
- 2004
- ISSN
- 1027-6084
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2004 Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449095002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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