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Strategic Planning as Governance of Long-Lasting Transformative Practices

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This chapter argues that new conceptual infrastructures and transformative practices are needed to cope with contemporary environmental and societal challenges. It reflects first on the nature and characteristics of transformative practices that construct images/visions of a preferred innovative structural outcome and opportunities for their implementation. The chapter then deals with the political-economic context and proposes envisioning as a learning process, discussing (among other things) transformative triggers and the power of visions in complex planning contexts. This is followed by a brief description of two cases, Hasselt and Antwerp, which are relevant in terms of transformative actions and visions. Finally, it provides ingredients for more radical strategic planning as the governance of collective affairs, which requires planners to cultivate activist modes of planning and to be more than navigators keeping the ship on course.

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    Louis Albrechts

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    Francesca Rizzo

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Albrechts, L. (2016). Strategic Planning as Governance of Long-Lasting Transformative Practices. In: Concilio, G., Rizzo, F. (eds) Human Smart Cities. Urban and Landscape Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33024-2_1

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