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

Joey Koning and Terry van Dijk

Planning Practice & Research, 2024, vol. 39, issue 1, 136-155

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2021.1954750

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