Abstract
The theme of this paper is the current practice of vision and visioning in land use planning in Scotland. The recent allocation of £90 million as part of the Building Better Cities Growth Fund required Scotland's six principal cities to prepare a city-vision. This was based on the perceived necessity of shared visions in providing a clear framework to guide development. The paper examines the contested concepts of visions and visioning and asks whether the prescriptive approach to the city-visions provides for inspirational or aspirational visions.
Acknowledgement
Deborah Peel wishes to acknowledge the support of the British Academy for their award to attend the Canadian Institute of Planners’ (2004) Moving Minds: Our Urban Challenge conference held in Toronto, where a version of this paper was presented.
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/government/pfbs-01.asp.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/planning/frcp-00.asp.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library4/FCSD/POLUnit/00016092.aspx.