Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Too often today, the only narratives that matter are personal ones, and many have seen a widening gulf between their individual hopes and dreams and those of the world around them. Too often, as well, people feel like powerless observers of forces and trends they cannot control. The rekindling of social imagination is one aspect of taking back cont

We need the potential routes ahead to be as visible, graspable and debated as our recent history

Old attitudes and ideas simply aren’t adequate to help us navigate what lies ahead. And pervasive gloom about the future risks being self-fulfilling.

The priority of modern politics is economic growth. But humanity’s struggle towards material security will only be worthwhile if we understand and find ways to attenuate the psychological afflictions that appear to continue into, and are sometimes directly fostered by, conditions of abundance. The problems of the thirty or so rich countries describ

matter what specific scenario transpires.” (How comforting to know there’s a host of “next right things” to do regardless of how badly or not so badly it all turns out!) Possibly more instructive than all this strategizing and scenario-planning, however, was the way they began to think about the freedom we can exercise in the 21st century: The cano