Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions

Ludlow, David

Abstract

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It's argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in the successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted normal practices but have also contributed to shaping a 'new normal'. The new normal is emerging, reconfiguring, and prioritising the substantive objects of planning and its governance and participatory processes. This book discusses this shift and presents a collection of episodes and cases from diverse European urban contexts to developing a new vocabulary for describing and addressing challenges, models, perspectives that contribute to defining the new normal.

• Deposit Date: Jun 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 17, 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Series Title: The Urban Book Series
• Series ISSN: 2365-757X; 2365-7588
• Book Title: The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation - Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World
• Chapter Number: 23
• ISBN: 978-3-031-32663-9; 978-3-031-32666-0
• Keywords: City Planning; Governance Model; Net-zero Neighbourhood; Digital-Twin; Copernicus
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10879746
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031326639