A reflection on the process of strategic foresight in urban planning

In today's chaotic world, every moment we face a series of uncertainties that can affect cities. For this purpose, one should distance himself from the traditional approaches in urban planning and resort to new tools and perspectives. In the meantime, strategic foresight obtained by combining the two areas of foresight and strategic planning can solve urban planning issues. One of the challenges facing this field is the lack of a specific process of strategic urban foresight. Therefore, the purpose of the current research; "Explaining the process of urban strategic foresight". In this direction, by adopting a qualitative approach and using the meta-composite method, an attempt has been made to formulate a process model of urban strategic foresight. For this purpose, 97 articles in the mentioned field were identified by searching the reliable database. In the next step, using the Casp method, the aforementioned articles were screened and finally 25 articles were selected. Then the mentioned articles have been examined and analyzed in three stages of open, central and selective coding. Mxqda2020 software is used for coding. In general, 225 open codes were obtained from the selected articles. In the next step, using the instant Delphi method, the opinions of 15 faculty members with expertise in urban planning were obtained, and based on that, central and selective coding was done. In total, 10 concepts and 3 categories were identified, and at the end, a process model of urban strategic foresight was formulated.