Total heritage: future Eopolis for cultural urban singularity
ISSN: 1463-6689
Article publication date: 2 October 2020
Issue publication date: 3 February 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of the article is to develop the concept of forecasting futures using the past by integrating the concept of heritage in it.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper demonstrates the process of development of the total heritage approach and its application. The process consists of the following steps: the review of the selected urban life visions and models of the past from prehistoric Catalhoyuk settlement up to the 20th century Japanese Metabolism to trace the examples of complex problem-solving and singularity presence that can be used for horizon scanning for the futures of urbanism; the development of total heritage approach based on the further analysis of selected examples demonstrating even unintentional presence of heritage in the construction of the futures; application of the total heritage approach for the modeling the futures of urbanism and illustrating it with the scenario of the future eopolis as the premise for cultural urban singularity.
Findings
This paper demonstrates the process of development of the total heritage approach and its application. The process consists of the following steps: the review of selected historic urban utopias to trace the principal scheme, how the future or ideal visions of urbanism were constructed; the development of total heritage approach based on the further analysis of Thomas More Utopia and Neolithic Catalhoyuk settlement demonstrating even unintentional presence of heritage in the construction of the futures; application of the total heritage approach for the modeling the futures of urbanism and illustrating it with the scenario of the future eopolis as the premise for cultural urban singularity.
Originality/value
The total heritage approach, developed in this research, presents heritage as the determinant structure or ethical imperative for sustainable future development toward cultural urban singularity.
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Citation
Rudokas, K. and Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, I. (2021), "Total heritage: future Eopolis for cultural urban singularity", Foresight, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-03-2020-0031
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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