Main entry:

Salewski, Christian, 1974-

Title & Author:

Dutch new worlds : scenarios in physical planning and design in the Netherlands, 1970-2000 / Christian Salewski.

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2012.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
A Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--ETH Zurich, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-338) and index.
1. Scenarios and the scenario method -- 2. The image of the future in Dutch physical planning and design -- 3. Making society: support for physical planning policy -- 4. Mechanisms of variation: models and design choices -- 5. Relative utopias: visualising contradictory objectives -- 6. Exploring visions: testing political decisions and consequences -- 7. Design as politics: campaigning for makeability -- 8. Stages for action: constructing situations -- 9. Scenario machine: popularity and disillusion -- 10. Scenarios as tools.

Summary:

Our decisions shape our future, but we know little about how. To find out, planners and designers construct vivid images of what could be. These scenarios serve as path-breakers between imagination and reason. In the late 1980s, the elite of Dutch planning and design took scenarios to unprecedented scales to convince the public of their ideas. But the quest to reshape the Netherlands as a whole failed dismally. Their attempt, however, unleashed a wave of new thinking about the future and created an enormous number of spectacular images of things to come. "Dutch new worlds" tells for the first time the story of how scenario thinking changed urbanism and physical planning, from its beginning in the late 1960s to its height in the 1990s. It shows how most grand scenario projects came to nothing because of over ambition and misuse.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789064507793
9064507791

Subject:

Regional planning Netherlands History 20th century.
City planning Netherlands History 20th century.
Regional planning Netherlands History 20th century Designs and plans.
City planning Netherlands History 20th century Designs and plans.
Regional planning Netherlands Case studies.
Aménagement du territoire Pays-Bas Histoire 20e siècle.
Aménagement du territoire Pays-Bas Histoire 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Aménagement du territoire Pays-Bas Études de cas.
City planning
Regional planning
Stadtplanung
Regionalplanung
Landschaftsplanung
Netherlands
Niederlande

Form/genre:

Case studies
Architectural drawings
History
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277779
Call No.: BIB 212836
Status: Available