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Rehabilitating utopias: the importance of imagination to confronting our spatial challenges

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  • Joey Koning
  • Terry van Dijk

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Many contend that end-state planning is no longer either acceptable or feasible. However, outside the formal planning system, communities do conceive radical proposals for the places they live in. Our paper makes a plea for a renewed appreciation of Utopias by revealing the diversity of such imagined futures of a place. By means of a review of the nature of 12 locally emerging Utopias in the Netherlands, combined with a literature review, we propose to use spectra to characterise imagined futures, bringing nuance to the debate and a re-appreciation of the transformative power of Utopian stories about futures of places.

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  • Joey Koning & Terry van Dijk, 2024. "Rehabilitating utopias: the importance of imagination to confronting our spatial challenges," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 136-155, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:39:y:2024:i:1:p:136-155
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2021.1954750
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