Participatory scenario building:  A tool for city planners

Riitta Molarius; Nina Wessberg; Jaana Keränen

Participatory scenario building: A tool for city planners

Riitta Molarius
, Nina Wessberg
, Jaana Keränen

Research output: Book/Report › Report

Abstract

Today there exist big trends towards urbanization and the cities. This phenomena creates a need for consciousness and understanding what kind of chances do these mega trends involve city administration, construct and the maintenance of the buildings and infrastructure as well as land use. The strong immigration inside the countries from country side into the cities together with the immigration inside Europe as whole increase the population in cities and diversifies culture.This workbook supports city decision makers to understand and foresight the forthcoming changes including opportunities and threats. In addition, the tool creates opportunities to influence the favourable city development and to build a vivid, vital and secure environment to all citizens.This workbook is prepared as a part of the EU_HARMONISE project (A Holistic Approach to Resilience and Systematic Actions to Make Large-Scale Built Infrastructure Secure).

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Espoo
Publisher	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Number of pages	46
ISBN (Electronic)	978-951-38-8420-8
Publication status	Published - 2016
MoE publication type	D4 Published development or research report or study

Publication series

Series	VTT Technology
Number	259
ISSN	2242-1211

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

scenarios
resilient city
participatory work
foresight

Access to Document

https://publications.vtt.fi/pdf/technology/2016/T259.pdf

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