Envisioning how a desirable future might look is a long-standing effort in human evolution
and social change. Utopian thought and visions provide direction for actions and behavior; …

Highlights•Urban and global futures tend to be dystopian challenging decision-making and
action.•Positives visions, however, allow exploration of alternative and desirable urban …

The agreement of a New Urban Agenda to put urban areas at the centre of achieving
sustainable development for future generations was a key objective for Habitat III, the United …

Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly
dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like …

Sustainability scientists continue to struggle with overcoming the reactive environmental
protection paradigm and focusing on the urgent and complex challenges that threaten the …

Scholarly attention to social innovation has increased rapidly in recent years, but a broad
picture to illustrate the structure of the field, tracing its evolution and identifying new research …

Sustainability challenges are multitudinous, urgent, and complex. They are beyond the
capacities of our current institutions to address, caused by path-dependent behaviors, and …

Understanding the complexity and sustainability of infrastructure development is crucial for
reconciling economic growth, human well-being, and environmental conservation. However …

By 2050, the population living in major cities, especially in develo** countries, will have
increased twofold. With the increasing majority of the population occurring in urban areas, it …

Organizations faced different development paths over the centuries, caused by changes in
the competitive environment and the ability to respond to these changes. Such changes and …