Strategic Metropolitan Foresight. Methodology and Case Study. The book is dedicated to strategic foresight in its metropolitan dimension. It is both of methodological and practical nature. In the methodological aspect a comprehensive concept of foresight study is offered specifying its basic idea, predominant logic, main products and tools for their creation. In the practical aspect the book presents a step-by-step procedure of strategic foresight study providing a pragmatic overview of the analytical tasks sequence and supporting them methods. The book constitutes a synthesis of authors' experiences acquired in realizing foresight studies on technological development, cultural development and land use patterns as well as those resulting from other research activities carried out by the Department of Strategic and Regional Studies at the University of Economics in Katowice, including in particular the studies on creating visions of the desired future, elaborating scenarios of possible environment evolution and formulating effective local/regional development strategies.