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© 2018 ICE Publishing. All rights reserved. Improved travel infrastructure and social, economic and political uncertainty will make cities of the future ever more cosmopolitan in character. City dwellers will have varied cultural backgrounds and contradictory ideas of how to live, work and inhabit urban environments. Civil engineers will need to understand the future aspirations and desires of urbanites, while challenging unrealistic expectations that undermine the viability of new engineering initiatives. This paper showcases a decision theatre research methodology to reveal how urban inhabitants engage with the built environment and access infrastructure. Adopting a research-through-engagement approach, the authors provide new insights into how urban environments are experienced and understood at both local and systemic scales by city stakeholders. Interrogating this empirical data, the authors illustrate how inhabitants with localised urban experiences may make demands on the built environment that appear illogical to civil engineers applying more systemic framings. The paper suggests that civil engineering solutions to population growth and climate change will require urban dwellers to change how they imagine, act and live within cities. It also advocates that civil engineers need to reframe their views of urban life, by investing in collaborative and co-creative decision-making partnerships with the inhabitants of these future cities.
Author(s): Powell M, Glendinning S, Dawson R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning
Year: 2018
Volume: 171
Issue: 4
Pages: 177-186
Print publication date: 01/08/2018
Online publication date: 22/06/2018
Acceptance date: 10/05/2018
ISSN (print): 1755-0793
ISSN (electronic): 1755-0807
Publisher: ICE Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.17.00033
DOI: 10.1680/jurdp.17.00033
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