Welcome to Urban Futures
Sustainable Regeneration - from evidence-based urban futures to implementation
Urban Futures is a unique research effort that seeks to establish and test alternative future scenarios, providing insights into the potential sustainability impact of today's urban regeneration decisions.
Sustainability, no matter what definition is used, is all about the future - putting in place now solutions to problems that will yield a positive rather than negative future legacy. The essential underlying question is "how sustainable are these solutions?" while the answer inevitably is "it depends on how the future develops".
Urban Futures is a four year research project which started in May 2008, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The project consortium is led by the University of Birmingham and includes the University of Exeter, Lancaster University and Birmingham City University.
