Part XII
Future of Community Mapping
- 60 The Future of Maps Explores emerging technologies and trends reshaping Community Mapping — from real-time data and AI-assisted tools to multimodal interfaces and decentralized systems — while anchoring future possibilities in the unchanging human needs for place, story, and dignity.
- 61 The Future of Communities Communities face profound pressures — climate change, migration, aging, economic concentration, fragmented information, and loneliness. This chapter examines these forces and explores how Community Mapping can support resilient, equitable, connected futures.
- 62 What Happens Next The closing chapter of the textbook. Recaps the central arguments, names what remains unsettled, predicts mistakes the field will make, articulates what stays right, and invites the reader into a lifetime of practice grounded in listening, consent, durability, and dignity.