Weaving Urban Futures is a practical guide for creating more just and climate-resilient cities through collaboration. Rather than treating city-making as a technical exercise led by experts alone, the guidebook promotes a process of bringing together diverse actors (community members, grassroots organizations, governments, researchers, funders and the private sector) to collectively imagine and shape desirable urban futures.
The guide introduces a step-by-step methodology based on place-based coalitions, emphasizing dialogue, trust-building and negotiation across different interests. It encourages citymakers to move beyond traditional planning approaches and focus on co-creation, social learning and collective action. The goal is to translate shared visions of the future into concrete climate and development actions.
Suggested citation: Lucas Turmena, Flávia Guerra, Nancy Andrea Ramírez Agudelo, Alejandra Ramos Galvez, Simone Sandholz, Altiere Dias de Freitas, Julia Nespras, Marisol Romero Magallán, Monique Menezes, Sabrina González Barbosa, Jorgelina Hardoy, Florencia Almansi, Clare Blackwell, Pablo Lazo, Ariadne Samios, Camila Alberti, Isadora Freire, Karolina Silva, Larissa Oliveira, Laura Azeredo, Millena Oliveira, Mariana Campos, Ana Iris Enríquez, Andrea Villasís, Oscar Pozos, Alí Gallegos, Gorka Zubicaray, Michael Roll and Tucker Landesman. Weaving Urban Futures: Trajectories towards just and climate-resilient cities Bonn: United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2026.
