New Lincoln Institute Book - Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects (Land Lines Article)

Author(s): Hopkins, Lewis D. and Marisa A. Zapata
Publication Date: April 2007

1 pages; Inventory ID LLA070407; English


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Engaging the future successfully will require the active participation of planners, community leaders, and many individuals, as well as the contributions of students and scholars of planning. To shape any number of possible futures, we must imagine them in advance and understand how they might emerge. Forecasts, scenarios, plans, and projects are four ways of representing, manipulating, and assessing ideas about the future. The chapters in this richly illustrated volume offer a variety of tools and examples for planners in situations where they are positioned to advocate for a new kind of planning—one that allows communities to face uncertain and malleable futures with continuous and deliberative planning activities.